Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-08-11
.gineer Of the 416.

gineer of the 416.
He told us what there was to tell,
which wasn't very different from the
way we'd been putting it up. They
Hogan and his fireman-hadn't sus-
pected that they were carrying ma
liac until after they had passed Baux-
lite and Collingwood had told them
both that what he wanted to do was
to overtake the special and smash 1t.
Then there had been fight on the en-
CINE. but Collingwood had gun and
he had threatened to kill them both
if they didn't keep on.
Il KEEP her goin'," said the Irish
man, 'thinkin' maybe Jonesy'd keep out
of my way. or that at the lasht I'd get
chanst to. shut the Sixteen off an
give her the brake. He KEEP me firm
dom 1t. and w.hin saw the tail-lights.
| pushed Johnnie Shovel off an whit
afther him because there was nawth-
in else to do. Johnnie's back youndher
piece, wild broken Leg"
Just then Jones, the specials en-
gineer. came uD, and lie Dieced ont
Hogan's story. The wire to Bauxite
had warned him that q crazy man was
chasing him and overrdnning stop
signals. He had thought to side.track
the chaser at the old "Y' and that was
what he had stopped for.
Thereupon the three Of us went
after the crippled fireman. and when
we got back to the "Y' with him ii
was all over. Col,ingwood had died
with his head In Mrs. Sheila's lap, and
the boss, tagged out and half. dead as
he must have been. was up and at
work, getting the wreck victims into
our day coach. which had been backed
up and taken around to the other leg
Of the ''Y' to head for Portal City.
When 1t came time for us to move
Collingwood, Mrs. Sheila pulled her
veil down and walked behind the body,
with the good old major locking his
arm In hers, and that choking lump
came again In my throat when re-
me1nbered what Collingwood had said
to the boss the night he came to our
Office: "Sheila made her wedding jour
ney with me once. when she was just
eighteen. The next time she rides with
me 1t will be at my funeral
guess there's no use stretching the
agony out by telling about that mourn
full ride back to Portal City with the
dead and wounded. We left the wreck
blazing and roaring In the shut-fn
valley at the gulch's mouth because
there wasn't anything else to do; Kir-
gan and Jones and one Of the firemen
handled the engine and pulled out,
while the rest of us rode in the day.
coach and did what we could for the
suffering.
At Banta we made stop long
enough to let the boss send wire to
Portal City, turning out the doctors
and the ambulances-and the under
takers; and though 1t was after three
o'clock in the morning when we pulled
in. it seemed as If the whole town had
got the word and was down at the
station to meet US.
l. couldn't see Mrs. Sheila's face
when the major helped her off at the
platform; her veil was still down. But
I did hear her low-spoken words to the
boss, whispered while they were car
rytng Collingwood and Hatch, and two
Of the others, who were past help, out
to the waiting string Of dead-wagons.
Il shall 60 east with the body to-
morrow-today, mean-if the srrik-
ers win let you run train, and
Cousin Basil will go with me. We may
never meet again, Graham, and for
that reason must say what have to
say now. Your opportunity has come.
The man who could do the most to de-
feat you is dead. and the strike will