Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 52

srsesssos HACKLES OF SERVICE BY MEIGS C. FROST. (Copyright, by Doubleday. Page & Co.) ippi River's _gone said the chairman of the with a supreme effort at con- “But it looks to me like this railroad gone crazier. Tdik quick now. How the devil do you and your fireman come to be mucking anound nvenu on foot?" more Buck Mc! board, trol. asters glow- nele Mickey, s would stick, he knew. It rd telling. “Those two old lunatics held us up at the siding where we ran in to let the Sky Rocket pa down the line,” he said bitterly Sabine away and ran her thems Me and Jezzbo, we hoofed it down the ne for five miles to a section gang and borrowed their motor car. Got to Bienvenu just when the agent was getting word about the crevasses and saw the trestle go. Then we started after you all. No other way to reach you " It was lunatic, as he had said it. Fantastically lunatic. But there in the middle of a flooding country, caught between two crevasses, Henry Burlingame threw back his head and roared th laughter a great light dawned upon him. For now he saw the shotgun by Dad Adams’ seat. “You two damned old dodoes took away from these two began. But he never finished the sentence. Dad, whose veteran railroad brain had been ing automatically, cut in on the speech hoot me later, Han lissen naw, fo' wd pieaded get what Bucl Light co ction rail on what pilin’s Jeft in le. Yo' cain't make it Sky Rocket Yo' don’ know how much akened. Lissen, Hank. ruction flats over there Why don’ vo' let me hook onto ’em with the back out here on the main line? sfer ' pa ngers off'n the Sky Rocket. We'll take ‘em through the swamp an’ oveh the tres- tle t' high land. Hey? We'll be lght enough t' make it, Hank. Send Buck ' Jazzbo hustlin’ bac on that moteh cah t' tell 'em how quick we all's comin’. How 'bout it, Hank? Me'n Mickey, we done run her this far. We ¢'n run her back.” Henry Burlingame looked at his di vision s it ta, 0’ got ke,” he * Mickey Sabine = Cr “What do you think - gun if I don't believe it's the answer. “Crazy is right,” sald that rail foader. “But it's the dope. I mis trust that trestle. The Sabine weighs about 100,000 to T48 0,000, It's about the only chance.” “Let’s go, then,” said Hell-Roaring rders crackled. And while the motor cz 1 back through the swamp to brin e word to_the con- struction gang laboring %t Blenvenu trestle the chairman of the Delta Yalley himself leaped down along the ties back to the Sky Rocket to help superintend the transfer of the flood threatened pa: rs from the all- steel Pullmans to splintery 1 tion flat cars, ¢ zged by the S hll’_\e from the siding, where they rested in convinei proof of the Providence that looks out so often honest railroad men. Of the happenings of the next few hours they'll tell you vet, up and down the line of the Delta Valley, in roundhouse and switch shanty, in construction camp and section gang. They'll tell you of a construction crew that labored like cursing and grimy demi-gods at the Blenvenu tres- tle, under the glare of gasoline flares as the Wels' lights shone out over a swirling brown flood, while caps and stringers and piling braces and ties were pushed farther and farther out over the naked tops of the piling that was all the rushing waters had left of the trestle in their first mad surge. They'll tell you by Wh;al superhu. man battling the light 55-pound rail from the branch line material was spiked down upon the ties in feverish fight to open a gate to safety for the Sky Rocket's passengers. They'll tell you how that crowd of passengers came bumping along a half-submerged line through Tete Noir Swamp, hud- dled on light construction flats pushed through a flooded landscape by a relic of a locomotive that ought to have been under glass in a museum. They'll tell you how the happy curses of the chairman of the board mingled with the triumphant whoops of an aged Junatic who sat at the throttle of that comic supplement locomotive when the repaired trestle came into sight. Rut most of all they love to tell you how, when Uncle Mickey Ric an, that sweating and overtaxed veteran, plied shovel and bar until he dropped. it was Henry Burlingame, Hell-Roar- ing Hank, that same chairman, who took the veteran's place, took it and held it despite the protests of Big Id Maddock, engineer of the deserted 748, and ordered Ed to hold himself in re serve to take the throttle in case the aged lunatic cracked | And they chuckle as they relate that the aged lunatic, never relinquishing that throttle, harried his millionaire n with profane encouragement. everent and biting comment that now, dad-blast it, some guys were gonna understand you couldn’t keep a real railroad man off'n the job while | there was a job that needed real rail- | road men, he; | for that awaited the she came backin with the crowded ahead of her. But throttled down, she pus! the temporary light construction tha had been laid in such mad haste. Just| below those 55-pound rails, so pitifully light, the crevasse flood s s| way. The structure swa beneath the weight it was hold. The first flat cs ond. The third. The fourth. The fifth neared land. Then, as the Sky Rocket's passengers swarmed forward and leaped off the sides to the road- bed and scrambled to safety on the ridge beyond, there came a Ercaping, splintering sound The flood-weakened inward, all s, as a pile of nursery w Under the | surface of the brown flood sank the! caps, the stringers, the ties and the | rail that had been laid in such mad | haste, with frantic, fear-spurred speed. | With them sank the Sabine. Brave | in her panoply of black and gold, she vanished rumbling from sight, her | Dbell-topped tall smokestack the last | glimpse of her caught by human eyes. | too, they'll tell you on the | y. Of the shouting men ambied down the bank with ropes, risking their own lives. Of the hoarse cheers that rose when out of the welter of that flood were pulled Henry Burlingame and Big Ed Mad- dox, the chairman of the board still clutching by the collar half-strangled old Dad Adams, the engineer of 748, holding like a vise to the unconscious form of Uncle Mickey Riordan. But above all other matters on that historic night, they speak with rev- erential awe' of the language of the Mon. Henry Burlingame, when once the crevasse water had been pumped out of him, and the hot coffee pumped in. He spoke with the tongues of su- permen and fallen angels, that night, did Hell-Roaring Hank. There are string sl pertlous called wl made it. The sec-( pillng sage! reoes the passengers, who as every railroad man knows, have little knowledge and less sympathy for the troubles Sale Redu THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, p |a situation without precedent. . | One of a series' of best | short stories publish- | ed during the past | year. | those who trundle them across a con- tinent, forgot their discomforts and conceded that justice had been done to of of “I ought to have you two damned old pirates strung up to the nearest telegraph pole,” the .chairman of the Delta Valley board concluded his little love speech. Uncle Mickey stood silent. But Dad Adams grinned. Weakly, it is true, but none the less a grin. “String ahead, Hank,” he croaked. “Yo' got vo' gang o' young squirts with yo' t” do the stringin’. But befo’ 0’ staht yo' pa'ty, lemme ask yo' somethin’. Weah'd yo' be if Mickey an’ me hadn't crowded the ol' Sabine so she was t'other side that trestle D. C, JULY befo’ it got its uppeh works stripped, hey? An’ on the level, Hénk, ain't yo' glad yo' rode a real engine on her las' trip—with a couple real railroad men?" The Hon. Henry Burlingame, they'll tell you, never answered that question, verbally. But you'll see his answer today in a bronze plate on the frame of the steel bridge that supplanted the old Blenvenu trestle. Thus it reads: “In the bayou beneath this bridge rests the Sabine, first locomotive of the Delta Valley Line to make the run from Louisiana into Texas. Engi- 192 —PART 3. neer “Dad” Adams. Fireman “Uncle Mickey” Riordan. She rolled to glory with her old crew on the job, saving lives in the Twin Crevasses.” Which is as near as Hell-Roaring Hank ever came to making an ex- planation or an apology to any man. He had worn the shackles of service 00 long himself not to recognize the marks they left on others. THE END. 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