The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-13


the crew. because their train was dis,
appearing down the canyon; the eating
mouse man, because nobody paid him
'or his coffee: and johnny Horipan
because be found il impossible TO stop.
ha mad dumped the sand. he had ap.
| pied the mir, be had reversed the en-.
Ginc-by all the rules laid down in
inc instruction car she ought to stop.
but sue dldn I stop, and-this was the
embarrassing fcature-she was headed
down hlll twenty miles long, with
curves 70 puzzle boa constructor John
hung his head wildly over the drivers
looked back at the yelling crew and
contemplated the load that was push.
ing him down the grade: and his head
began TO swim. There appeared but
one thing more to do. that was TO make
noise; and as he neared the round.
house he whistled like the wind. A]oy.
slus 0 O'Cooney McGrath. at the alarm
darted out of the house like a fox
AS he reached the door he saw tho con.
g9rnctlon tram coming. and Johnnie
horlgan standing in the gangway look,
ing tor soft place to light.
The wiper charted the situation in
mental second. The train was run.
ming awn". ami Horigan was leaving IL
10 its fate. From any point Of view
it was tough proposition. bat tough
propositions came rarely TO ambitious
railroad men, and Aioysius was starv-
ing Tor any SORT OF a proposition THAI
would help him out of the waste. The
'aborers in the oaboosc. already bewiI-
dered, we're crauing anxiously from tbe
windows. Horigan, opposite the ronnd
house, jumped i'll a sprawl; and the en-
gihe snot past Aloysius so quickly that
boarding was out Of the question.
But on the siding stood couple ~
RATS empty; and with his hair straight
t1 on eenters. the little wiper ran for
them and mounted the nearest. The
steel train was jumping. Alovsius.
punching his muscle ran the length of
the two flats for head, and from tine
Tar corner, threw himself across the gap
lIkc bat on Il load Of the runaway
steel. scramblng 10 his feet. he mo.
toned and yelled 10 tho hnboes who
were nouring frantic out on tho hind
ilat Of tho string. TO set brakes; then
he made ahead for the engine.
~ was race with the odds all
wrong. for with every ward Aloysus
gained, the train gained twenty. BY
the time he reached the tender. breath.
less, aud slid down the coal into the
deserted cab. the train was beadino
into Little Horn gap, and every Italian
aboard, instead Of twisting brakes. was
Yelling for life. AIoysius jumped iuto
the levers, poked his head through the
window, and looked at the drivers
They were IN the back motion. and in
front of them the sand was streaming
wide open. The first thing he did was
to shut it half ofG-thc fight could
not be won by wasting ammunition,
Over and over again he jerked at the
ar. II was refusing its york Where
SO many baitcd runner has turned for
saivatlon there was none for Aloysius.
nc opened and closed. threw on and
threw Oft: 1t vas all one. and all use.
lesS. Inc situation was as simple rs il
was flghtful. Unless the speed could
be at least party checked. either the en-
gine would leave the track going into
q curve, or the flats would leave IT
going out. Even if they didn Z leave
tue track, thcT Tero certain TO smash
INTO No. l6, the ppasscnger. which
must meet them somewhere on the hill
Aloysins S fingers closed slowly on
The sand ,!ever There was nothing on
earth for it but sand. simply sand; and
even the wiper : was oozing with the
stream that poured from the tank on
the whiskered rails lie shut off n bit
more, thinking Of the terrific curves be-
low. and mentally calculatCd-or tried
reverse his drivers--how he could
shovel coal and sand the curves at the
same time-and how much Slowing the
Italians at the tail Of the kite could
stand without landing on the rocks.
The pace was g:ddv aud worse. When
his brain was whirling fastest. a man
put his hand on his shoulder. Aloysius
started as if Davy Jones had tanned
him. and between bounccs looked scared
around. He looked into a face he didn Z
know from Adam :. hut there was sand
In tho eyes that met his.
"Wlat can I do7'
Aloysius SAW tho mans Inns move
and without taking his hnnds from the
levers. bent his head 10 catch the words
What can ] do7' shouted the mar
at his elbow
''Givc me some Steam-steam - cried
The wiper, looking straight ahead.
II WAS the foreman of the steel gang
from the caboosc. Alovsius, through
the backs of his eyes, saw him grab tho
shovel aud make pass at the tender. |
Doing so, he nearly took header
through the gangwav. but he hung to
the shovel and braced himself better.
With the next attempt he cot shoy- !
olful into tho cab. but in the delivery
mssed il we'll up Alovsius's IS neck. There |
we're nelIneT WORDS nor grlnS. bot iust |
another shovelful of coal minute aft
er; and tie tracEiavcr. in Snitc of the |
DIZZY lurchinG. shot it where it. be. !
!onpcd-into tho furnace Feeling that |
If one shoyclful could be landed. moro |
could. Alovsius g own steam rose. As |
they headed madlv around the China. |
mon bend the dial began TO climb in |
spitc Of the obstacles; and the wiper. |
Considering there were two. and the |
steam and the sand TO FIGHT the thing |
ont, opened his valve ard busted The |
whiskers on the curve with something
more thnn a gleam OF hope.
If there was confusion on the run
away train. there was terror and more
below il. As tho spec'o: fitted past
Pfiuale station, five miles down tho
valley the agent r"ughF a GLIMPSE nr
the sal!ow fecc Of thc v-irer at The cab
window. and saw 'hc drivers whirlinp
backward. lie ru-hcd to his kew md
called the Medicine Rerd disnptchor.
With n tattoo likn = drumroN the dis
pai cher in tu~n called Soda Snrinos. ton
niles below Pring'" where N". 16 Tho
ur-paSs"ucnr. WIS thcn due. He ratified
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