The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1896, Page 8

ee Fags WS ~ oo sma ce tat ~~ A PUNAWAY TRAIN. ~~ Am Old Railroad Engineer Tells of a Start- ling Experience in New England. “T lived then in a smail Massachusetts ‘ity, and managed a road where every employe, from the section men up, was personally known to me, and railroad- ing was more of a pleasure than it is | there where the roads are so vast and} jong that one hardly knows the mem- bers of his own office staff. My office ‘windows, I remember, looked out di-! rectly upon the principal business street of the place and the entrance to the Union depot, the street crossing the tracks at right angles not twenty feet from the great arched station entrance. | Every hour or two New York and Bos- ton express trains were arriving and departing, and it was always an inter- esting sight the day before Thanksgiv- ing, when every train was running in two or three sections, and each one drawn by two locomotives, loaded down with passengers anxious to get to the old farm in time for the Thanksgiving dinner. “One snowy, blustering day I sat waiting to see the 11:25 train pull in from Boston, for somehow I kind of smelt danger, as a railroad man often does. I knew the train was a heavy one, the rails slippery and that before it struck the crossing it came down a heavy grade four miles long. Out at ‘the other end of the depot was a great Jong bridge carrying the train off to the west, and also the tracks branching south to New York. On both these tracks stood huge locomotives blowing off steam and seemingly in haste to couple off to the coming train. which 2was destined for both the South and the West, and hurry it off to its des- tination. Well, to make a long story short, that train got the best of the engineer that day, owing to some defect in the air brakes, and there was one of the most hair-raising train runa- ways I guess I will ever witness. A mile up the grade I heard old Seth Mayoor, the engineer, making old 104 whistle for brakes in a way that made me turn cold. Almost at the same time the train came tearing down over the Strest crossing and inte the depot go ing sixty miles an hour, and I remem- er to this day and always will how 001 men about that place that day, and blowing his whistle for dear life as a warning to give him a clear track, “That they would even get those en- gines at the other end of the station #ut of the way I thought was an im- possivility, but they did. There were ool Mayoor looked as he dashed by, No. 104’s great Crawford whistle had given the warning. The switches were hastily set straight on to the bridge and away dashed the waiting engine in a race to get out of the way of the runawey train. It was a close shave. and it unnerved me for a week, but luck saved the day. That runaway ran four miles before it stopped, and the engineer with the light engine tearing along ahead of it was beginning to wonder if the tracks were clear way eut to Buffalo, when the brakes worked and the runaway was brought to a stop. For years I have been wondering how that train ever dashed down that grade and through the crowded depot, following the switches in and out, with- out a most frightful smash-up. down from the cab after backing back, regarded it as a huge joke, but it scared everybody else within a mile of the sta- tion out of a week’s growth.—Chicago Chronicle. WASHINGTON, D.C. HOTEL Penna. Ave., Cor. Third St. N. W., Electric Lighting, Steam Heat, Elec- tric Elevator, Improved Fire Es- capes. 4 EUROPEAN PLAN: $1.00 per day and up- ward. ROBERT P. EMERSON. BR JACKSON & C0, Manufacturers of Lumber, Doors, Sash, Blinds and Mouldings. Cor. 13th St. & Ohio Ave., N. W. DRESSED FLOORING a specialty. Saw and Plaining Mills, Plantersville, Ala Use \AUETS AMERICAN PLAN: $2.00 to $3.00 per day. DELEGATE CONTEST. There seems to be some doubt among the politicians§ as to who to represent the republican party from this city in the next national convention, The Bex has printed a list of the gentlemen who have been men- tioned as candidates, and as an in- ducement to make this contest in-! teresting, the BEE will present a fine gold headed cane to the candi- date who receives the highest num- ber of coupons. The coupons will be received and counted by the con- test editor, and all coupons will be kept and counted in the presence | of a committee to consist of one friend from each candidate § Each coupon will count one vote, which must be sent to the contest- editor of the BEE. THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE. WHO WILL ag GES DELEGATES BE? John W. Miller VOTE FOR YOUR CHOICE. The coming Republican contest for delegates to the next National Repub- lican Convention will be a hot one. 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