The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25


them. Reloading rapidly, he watched
the round-house door; aud, sure enough,
almost at once, III was cautiously
opened Then he fired into the air
| one, two, three. four. FIVE, six-and he
saw a man start for the station on the
dead run. He knew, too, b. the tre-
mendous sweep of his legs that it was
Ole Anderson, the night foreman, the
man of all others he wanted.
cole" cried the dispatcher. waving
| his arms frantically as the giant Swede
| leaped across the track and stood on
the platform below him, "go get
Bucks. We got n runaway train 60
ing against Fifty-nine. For your lifer
| Ole, rum
The big fellow was into the wind
with the word. Bucks boarded four
| blocks away. Callahan, slammiug
down the window, took tho key, and
began calling Rowe. Rowe is the first
station east of Jackson; 1t was now
the first point at which the runaway
| freight train could be headed
Gro, R-o,' be ratified. The opera
tor must have heen sitting on tho wire,
| for he answered at once. As fast as
Callahan g fingers could talk, he told
| Rowe the story and gave him orders to
! get the night agent, who, he knew,
must be down to sell tickets for Fifty
nine, and pile all the ties they could
gather across the track to derail the
runaway train. Then he began thump.
| ing for Kolar. the next station east Of
Rowe, and the second ahead Of the
runaways. He pounded and he pound.
ed, and when the man at Kolar an.
swered, Callahan could have sworn he
had been asleep-just from the way
he talked. Does it seem stranger
There are many strange things about
g. dispatcher s senses. tSend your
-lA u
and open for runaway train. Set
brakes hard on your empties on sid
ing, to spill runaways il possible. Do
anything and everything to keep them
from getting by YOU. Work quick. -
Behind kolar's o. X. came a frantic
call from Rowe "Runaways went bv
| here like a streak. Knocked the ties
into toothpicks. Couldn t head them ,,
Callahan didn't wait to hear any
more He only wiped the sweat from
his face. It seemed forever before Ko-
lar spoke again. Then it was to saw:
Runaway went by here before night
man could get to switch and open IL. -
Would Bucks never Gomez And if
he did come. what on earth could stop
the runaway train nowf They were
heading now into the worst grade on
the West End. It averaged ] per cent
from, koar to Griffin, and there we
get down off the Cheyenne Hills with
long reverse. curve, and drop into
the canyon OF the Blackwood with
8 per. cent grade, Callahan, al.
most beside himself, threw open \
| north window to look for Bucks Two
men were flying down Main street
towards the station. He knew them;
they were Ole and Bucks.
wa Su, ,odn SUCKS Never before or since
figure as Bucks In his trousers and
Shippers and his night-shjrt FLYING free
as he sailed down the wind In another
tHsIah. HaM ne vas bounding up the stairs
>, ," What have have YOU done?" he painted.
throwing himself Into the chair Gala
li han told him. Bucks held his head in
turned to the sheet-asked quick for
"she's out of Calendar 7 tried hard
to stop her 7 didn't lose a second; she
Barely an. instant Bucks studied the
sheet. Routed out OF a sound sleep
aftsr an eight,hour trick and on such
night by such a message-the marvel
was he could think at all. much less set
trap which should save Fifty nine.
In twenty minutes from the moment
be together-could he save the passen-
ger7 Callahan didn't believe It.
A few sharp quick calls brought Grf-
I'm FIN we had had one Of the brightest lads
lahan. listening, heard Griffin answer
Bucks ratified a question. How the heart
hangs on the faint, uncertain tick of
sounder when human lives hang on it
Where are your section men?" asked
Bucks
In bed a. the section house"
Who's with you?"
Might agent; sheriff with two COW
boy. boy prisoners waiting to take Fifty
Before the last word came, Bucks was
back at him;
To Opr.:
Ask Sheriff release his prisoners
To save passenger train. Go together
TO west switch-house track open,
and set It. Smash In section tool
cut the rails. and point them to send
runaway train over the bluff into the
river BUCKS.
The words flew off his fingers like
sparks. and another message crowded
the wire behind IT.:
To Agt.;
passing track Flag FIT; FTftynne. IaT se' and nd
run her on siding. If can't get Fifty
aways. BUCKS
and the paper Is smoked with the fire
Of fifteen winters and bleached with the
sun sun Of. Of fifteen te summers ,I But to this
fra mes. the original orders. just as
Bucks scratched them Off. They hang
there in the dispatcher's offices In the
new depot. But In their present fancy
surroundings Bucks wouldn't know them.
II was Harvey Reynolds who took them
off the other end OF the wire-a boy in
thousand for that night and that
minute. The instant the words flashed
into the room he instructed the agent
grabbed an ak. and dashed out into the
waiting room where the sheriff I'D
Banks. sat with his prisoners, the cow
boys.
ed" cried Harvey, there's run
away train from OEalala coming down
the line in the wind, II we can't trap
II here, itl knock Fffty-nine into kind
ling wood, Turn the boys loose. Ed. and
save the passenger train. Bows. show
the man and square yourselves right
now. 7 don't know what you're here
for; but ] believe it's TO save Fifty
nine. VIII Won help"
The two men sprang TO their feet I'd
Banks slipped the handouts of their
wrists in a trice. Never mind the rest