The Ordway new era., 1916-06-23

Brake.
careful aim. threw 1t up on top Of the
car. The men secured the shoe anG
read the note:
Passenger due-Must ditch
car-Jump.
Rhinelander and Storm looked al
each other and looked down the line
The smoke of the passenger train rose
on the horizon. There was nothing te
do but what Helen directed. They
thought OF Spike below, but Helen was
calling to them and without further
delay the two men jumped one after
the other down into the machine
They told Helen OF Spikes plight
She nodded as II the difficulty were
no more than detail. slued the ma
chine from between the rails. drove
around the outfit car, slowed along
side it and all three shouted. Spike
hearing his name. listened and sat up
He saw the machine outside the door
and crawled forward but he was un
equal to a leap. Rhinelander anG
Storm urged him to make every eff
fort. He got to his feet and did the
best he could toward a jump. The
men together half caught and hall
pulled him into the machine With
the three aboard. Helen sped on ahead
of the runaway.
Storm had decided what to do. I'll
drop off the hind end. Helen" he ex
claimed. land derail the car"
She caught his idea Quick" che
cried. No time to lose"
Storm rolled over the back of the
machine and dropped to the ground
A bridge spanned an arroyo Just
ahead. Running forward. Storm caught
up such loose rocks as he could reach
and placed them along the track
Helen, choosing a negotiable point
turned her machine courageously of,
the right OF way and steered it safely
down the embankment. The outfit car
struck the rocks Storm had thrown on
the track. 1t reeled, plunged wildly
into the air and shot headlong over
the bridge into the bottom of the ar
royo.
In the distance the oncoming pas
senger train was whistling for a cross
ing close ahead. Storm running back
TO the track, cleared it hufriedly of the
obsTuctions. The engineer of the
train, scenting trouble. tried to check
his train, but it was too late and
Storm to save himself, dropped down
petween the ties and hung there till
the heavy train hurtled past. No en-.
CINE driver was ever more relieved
enah the man in the passenger cab,
When he saw himself safely across,
He stopped his train. From the foot
OF the bridge, Helen. Spike and Rhine.
lander were making their way to the
top and were with Storm when the
crew and passengers came back. The
engineman angrily told the conductor
tne trouble But after Storms brief
story, he was as grateful as he had
been indignant.
The conductor. knowing the anxie,v
among the dispatchers. urged his pas.
sensers on board and the train has.
tened on. The moment 1t pulled into
Arden the conductor gave the details
to the operator and the latter wired
headquarters.
IN the dispatchers' Office II was the
chief himself who jumped tn tho ,r.
strument when he heard the Arden
can. 1t was the chief who took m.
message telling how Helen and Storr,
nao saved the train. But the chief. A.
ne wiped his face with his handker.
eniei' renected that 1t was only an.
otner incident In the days work on tho
an, happily, instead Of trasicaiiy.
Al tne bridge Spike was trying 10
express his gratsfulness to the thrss
wno nad rescued him. TAey lem ~
scsoe togsther N tho conmanAs.rsS
nachine; and with psrAape : lsttie
sss s.esfasanding * 90 ano4hW
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