The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-06-02

Init.
AS my gray mot,o.
lions, ! realized tbo, !. resumed
hound passenger tro,n i, was lie
the siding. How The 'p a. Eoa
you !" ger. &c, here'' | asked the s' ss.l "
Why, came in m, wy engi's !
piled. Where's No I, ,, snsns
YETI ! had orders to ~,
, x, and expected to =. ~ y ND :.
tracked here. Not se sle No. 's.
What's upr - " AVsu
Didn't you smosh !
gosped. INTO N
Sure not he replied a..
natter ate. Did you strike yov rl "
my heads all rIrb, ,S% y
Iwenty-three passed her n
glory some time ago, and !,
see her where is sher
Come. man, coaxad a.,
get word along the line ana y
when she Is due. | don, Ss.'
here all day ''up
But tell you she pas,.,
insisted. and In desperatloO
to the key and pounded an -
to the fellow south Of me s,,.
err % had passed.
"The reply staggered me-
swered In the negative.
where's that trainY I Al
1t passed here at 7:3O,, I ns,,,..
Just then the rear braken,, j
running up the track with n
his hand. Found this down "A. n
he said. That's old Jim mi
cap; and IL his cap is here /
have passed here himself,
That's So rejolned the m.
But what am going to do, H
hang around here any longer.
swell, 1 wired to the nOrtA,u
for instructions, and got word N
the passenger along. Then I'm
went over the line to the next Y
south to send out a searching psr
the missing train. The track IA
my shanty and the next one ovls
closed to traffic pending the ann
the searching crew. In due tIn,
pulled In on a hand-car, and m,
that they has seen nothing Of ,hst
ing train. | wired the lnfounsal
headquarters, and asked for h
tons.
"Open up the road fot rsss
send men on foot to make a I'D
search for that train; we need M
the answer.
81 did as directed. and u.
searching party down the trad
them to spread out on either 4
the track and work along uas|
found the wreck, for | felt 4
must have run Off the trad
where.
after they had been g'v
fifteen or twenty minutes N
raked my brain for a solutr
matter, | heard a whiststrt|
In the distance. II sound N
pearing to come from b,
There was nothing due at "a
for an hour or so; so | thougAir|
II was n relief party comlns /,
help solve the mystery bot 4
sound continued, and did not q
louder, ] concluded that, vhtrl
was, 1t was stationary.
"The sound kept up for iS'r
minutes and then stopped. y
for about half an hour, and thn
one Of the searching party IN
on the run. In the meantime
quarters had been hammerins 2
news Of the engine.
"When the special courier 4
he was winded sol sawltvas
trying to pump anything out Of
til he got through with bis O'r
exercises.
"When he got his bellows
sgain, I learned that they hn
Jim Bludsoe and his train aD'.
miles down the road, about .
a half away from the track
Of the cars were standing On
the engine and the balahr
train were right side up
over the face Of the virgin
"The searchers had heard
tie, and proceeded to n'
They had found the wreck @,
with old Jim standing 10
scared, wlld-eyed and batle'sa
How the heck did they 81
asked the watery-eyed one.
"welI. they couldn't gel
out of Jim. He seemed pun"
When l sent in my repoh
wire they sent down a loI 4
to try and sa. 'age the u
Bludsoe was the only living g.
of the crew.
"They figured that the pV
caught up to the tram ~
whirl down the track ple.s
bodily, Ike a blooming y"
carried II across the couulll
it was discovered. This W. -.
by the crew. who came $. s,'
like lost sheep from |
whittier they had blown .,.o
ut was learned from VA .,sr
engineer had developer ~. 4,
some fine before passing IA