The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-21

runs her TO the rourdhouHe by gravity.
When we left Aguas on handcar that
hobo vas running the road.
"Ignorantest hOmbres In the world
these Mexicans. Shooting q 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 HE ueck: "but what's
that noise up the track?"
The master mechanic listened. and
when his ears. dulled by the clangor of
the shops. caughS the distant roar he
turned and ran for the house.
"Git up, Ed" he called to the road
muster, they're sending wild car
down the canyon-and she may ba,
loaded with dynamite!"
Dynamite or not" mumbled the
grizzled roadmaster, as he reused up
from his couch, there's q derailer I
put in UP at kilometer seventy the first
thing yesterday morning. ThatU send
her into the ditch!"
Nevertheless he listened intently,
cooking his head to guess by the
Hoind when it came to kilometer
seventy.
Nov she atrikes 81" he announced,
as the rumble turned into roar: but
the roar grew louder. there was a
crash as the trucks struck @ curve.
and then n great metal ore-car swung
round the point, rode up high ns it
hit tho reverse and, speeding by ms II
shot from q catapult, swept through
the yard: smashed into freight car,
and leaped. oar and all, into the creek.
They've sneaked my derailer!" eaid
the roadmaster, starting on q run for
the shops. Who'll go with me to put
in another one? Or we'll loosen rail
on the curve-thatM call for no more
than clawbar and wrench!"
"I'll go!" volunteered bud and the
man who stood guard. and as startled
eleepers reused UP on every side and
ran toward the scene OF the wreck
they dashed down the hill together and
threw q hahdcnr on the track.
Then. with what tools they could
get together, and q sparo dorailer on
the front, they pumped madly up the
canyon. holding their breaths at every
curyo Cor fear OF what they might sea-
If there was one runaway car there
was another, for the rebels were be.
ginning an attack.
Already on the ridges above them
they could hear thei crack OF rifles, and
a let or two Of dust made It evident
that they were the mark. But with
three strong men ut tho handles they
fed behind them. They rounded O
point and the open track lay before
them, with something
"JumD!" shouted. the roadmaster,
and as they tumhled Gown the bank
thay heard crash behind them and
the!r handcar was knocked into kind.
ling wood.
1t was close call for all three
men. and there had been but an in.
stant between them and DEATH,
death by the most approved fighting
methods OF the revoiutionists methods
which kept the fighters out Of harm'e
way,
Now up to the track!" the roadmas.
ter painted. ae the destroyer swept on
down the line. Find some tools
veil take out q rail!"
With frantic eagerness he toilad up
the NIL and attacked fieh.plate. and
Bud and ths young guard searched the
hillside for tools to help with theiwork.
They fell to th,sledge and clawbars
tapping of nuts. Jerking out spikes.
and heaving to loosen the rNil-and
then once more That swift.movtng
something loomed up suddenly on the
track.
up the him" commanded the road.
master, and as they scrambled into q
gulch q wild locomotive, belchine
smoke and steam like ire engine,
went rushing past them, struck the
loose rail. and leaped into the creek,
bed. a moment later, as It crushed
Its way down TO tho water, there was
san explosion that shook the hiiIe. They
crouched behind the cut bank, and the
trees above them bowed suddenly 10
the slash OF ain iron hail.
"Dynamite!" cried the roadmaster.
grinning triumphantly as he looked
up after the shock; and when. tho fall
OF fragments had ceased. and they had
fiedtastif by instinct FROM thesplace,
they STRUCK hands on their, narrow es-
cape. But back ut the big house, with
everybody giving thanks for their de.
livery from the powder train; the mfis.
tsf mechanic raised a;single voice Of
protest: He knew the sound. H0
knew that dynamite had not been re.
lsponsible for the; crash that sm6te the
ears of the anxioua listeners
yves not d3namiteln = he yelled,
t'ToWder, train bes damned I & II was No.
o. She;was sour dc q ;distiliefyt Hha
bidwcd UPS 4 tell ye-4sho biowed up
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