The Huttig news., 1914-10-17

CoIuc uOWu lTOlu lut UOTlu tOOh ou0 sniff and swung up into the cab.
 Ben came down at the word he whispered-for they'd two of 'em blowed up in the north-and they sent out another man. Hadn't got up the hill when the engine exploded and blew the poor devil to hell! asked Tyrrell what his friend had told him, but he kept it to himself until he could get his time. It's the fumes. boy they blow up like brandy-and old No. g is sour!
 Shell likely blow up. too. But how can we fix her with these ignorant Mexican mechanics? You should have been over at Aguas the day they fired the Americans.
 "'No more Americanos, says Ma dero, let 'em all out and hire Mexi- cans! The national railroads of Mex leo must not be in the hands of for. eigners.'
 put Mexican wood-ps seer up in the cab of old No. 313. He started to pull string of empties down the track. threw on the air by mistake, and stopped her on a dead-center. Pulled out the throttle and she wouldn't go. so he gave 1t up and quit.
 Called in the master mechanic then "A Mexican. He tinkered with her for an hour, right there on the track. until she went dead on their hands. Then they ran down switch engine and took back the cars and called on the roadmaster-a Mex. He cracked the nut-buflt a shoo-fy around No. 313 and they left her right there on the main track. Two days later an American hobo came by and set down and laughed at 'em Then he throws off the brakes. gives No. 313 a boost past the center with a crowbar, and runs her to the roundhouse by gravity. When we left Aguas on handcar that hobo was running the road.
 "Ignorantest hombres in the world these Mexieans.' Shooting a gun or running an engine. it's all the same they've got nothing above the eye brows"
 That's right" agreed Bud, who had been craning his neck; "but whatN that noise up the track2"
 The master mechanic listened, and when his ears, dulled by the clangor oi the shops, caught the distsnt roar hs turned and ran for the house.
 "Git up. Ed." he called to the road
 master, they're, sending . wild ca down the cany0nend she may bt loaded with dynamite!"
 Dynamite or not" mumbled the grizzled roadmaster, as he reused up from his couch, there's . derailer I put in up at kilometer seventy the first thing yesterday morning. .That1l send her into the ditch!"
 Nevertheless he listened intentfy, cooking his head to guess by the sound wsen 1t came to kilometer seventy. =
 Now she strikes it!' he announced. as the rumble turned into . roar: but the roar grew louder. there was . crash as the trucks struck a curve, and then a great metal ore-car swung round the point. rode up high as 1t hit the reverse and. speeding by as if shot from a catapult. swept through the yard; smashed into a freight car. and leaped, car and all, into the creek.
 They've sneaked my derailer!" said the roadmaster, starting on a run for the shops Who'll go with me to put in another one? Or we'll loosen . rail than a clawbar and wrench"
 'f1l go!" volunteered Bud and the man who stood guard, and as startled sleepers reused up on every side and ran toward the scene of the wreck they dashed down the hill together and threw a handcar on the track.
 Then. with what tools they could get together. and spare derailer on the front, they pumped madly up the canyon, holding their breaths at every curve for fear of what they might sec. If there was one runaway car there was another. for the rebels Tere be- ginning an attack.
 Already on the ridges above them they could hear the crack of rincs, and a jet or two of dust made 1t evident that they were the mark. But with three strong men at the handles they made the handcar jump. The low hills fed behind them. They rounded point and the open track lay before them, with something
 "Jump!" shouted the roadmaster, and as they tumbled down the bank they heard Q crash behind them and their nandcar was knocked into kind- ling wood.
 It was a close call for all three men. and thers had been but an In. stant between them and death, death by the most approved fighting methods of the revolutionists, methods which kept the fighters out of harms way.