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Locomotive
Strangely
Lost In '
THe
Quicksands
Ou a hot July day in 1S93 two men
, stood together in a cab of one of the
big freight engines ,of the Santa Fe
road which was snorting and puffing
in the station of Albuquerque, Si. M.
awaiting the signal to draw out
- Bill Seavy, the flreman, was address
ing the grizzled old engineer In a serf-
ous voice. "
"She said. The aand will block' your
- ears and blind your eyes, choking op
your throat while you gasp and stran-
gle under tons and tons of lt'A
, 'Vyho said sor asked the engineer
crossly, looking up the sizzling line' of
track, the rails so hot that they would
blister the hand that touched them.
"Little Anita, the Indian girt who
Urea up near MulVey's place. She came
. to me yesterday and looked into, my
face with those great round eyes of
hers - and, '; waving her band, . said.
'There's trouble coming, senor; horri
ble, dreadful deaths coming.' Then she
told me about the sand, and then she
fell down, fainting: It was awful aw
full" And the young fellow covered
his eyes with his bands and swayed to
and fro, moaning.
"Ah, bosh!"' exclaimed the engineer.
though the corners of his mouth
twitched suspiciously. Then as he
straightened up, as though ashamed of
his weakness In listening, he grum
bled: -
"Too much 'red eye. Cnt it out, boy.
j Cut it out, or It'll get you. Here's the
signal to start, boy, and away we go.'
And he threw open the throttle, and
' the long train moved along, gathering
: i speed as It moved. ' l-'.i.---,t':
But the fireman did not seem to heed
the words of the older man and shov
eled the coal into the open maw of the
engine, from which, the bright streams
of-flame shot forth, in a half hearted
manner, bis mind still dwelling on the
words of the Indian girl. .
The engineer, a man of more practl
cal mind, seemed anxious, too, but
from an entirely different cause. Peer
lng around at the flreman through a
cloud of perspiration, he said r "I'm
kinder scared of these rails today, boy.
It's' been so beastly hot that I'm al
most; afraid they may bunch up and
throw us. If that should happen along
about the quicksand district, your In
diaxr girl's Treaklnesr might " - come
' true." And ' hrf eyed the young flre
man quizzically.-
The fireman turned deadly 'pale t un
der' his plastering of grimy coal dust,
and, grasping the' engineer's' arm, he
( groaned ; in - an agonized - voice: "Go
alow t Oli, for God's sake, go slow!",
Along hummed the train over the
glistening rails. "flashing-through ? the
little towns and hamlets ' which they
passed like a long brown snake, the
merry whistle of the engine cutting the
" still air while a cloud of black smoke
drifted back like a streamer of piracy.
They slowed down at Socorro for
the engine, like a Roman giant, to
gather speed for the climb at the ridge
near San Antonio; then, opening the
tnrottles wjde the - black monster
twitched and shorted up the long hill,
bearing its heavy burden of freight
cars after 1C And upon reaching the
top' It gave a prolonged whistle of - trl
umph as it started on Its down war
plunge.
Meanwhile the flreman seemed to
have forgotten his dark forebodings' of
the earlier part of the afternoon and
was whistling1 cheerfully as he shovel
ed on coal. Down the hill they plunged.
the engine rocking and swaying from
Mystery
Of the
Desert
s' ' ' '-"r
THB EKOIXB LEFT THS BAILS.
its ppeed, despite closed throttles, when
SudJenly it gave a frightful plunge,
rose fcfsh from the rails and crashed
Lke Elone away down into the bod of
;'' '.'nr. J which bordered the track.
tlLl'.zs Into It with tbe rnpi lity of a
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had witnessed. And the rails whanget
and buzzed in an agony of grief be
cause of the awful murder which had
been committed all through two ends
of track projecting upward from the
heat sent down by the sun. The In
dlan girl's prophecy was fulfilled.
, 'Two years passed by, and, although
the disappearance of the engine re
mained as great a mystery , as, ever,
still it was beginning to be forgotten,
as such things wills M- " 1 ;
One day a gang of workmen were en
gaged In driving piles about ten miles
down the river at the -edge of the
quicksands, when one of the workmen,
driving bis shovel down Into the
ground heard a clang and felt a thrill
pass through his band. Quickly draw-
lag bis shovel up, he found that th
edge was doubled.
. Seizing another shovel, with an oath
of surprise, he began to dig furiously
Into the sand, and after ten minutes'
hard labor be uncovered to view the
circular top of smokestack of an en
gine. Calling the foreman," be an
nounced the astonishing fact to him.
and the foreman quickly telegraphed
the news to the head office.
A crew was set to work digging
around the spot, and after two months'
bard labor the engine which had been
lost two years before was brought
back to the light of day, with the skel
etons of the engineer and flreman still
Inthe cab.-' v-
i How the engine ever moved ten
miles from the spot where the fatal
plunge was made Is still an unsolved
mystery.
Found Death vt
The Winning Post
That death frequently stalks near
those who win victories has been dem
onstrated again and -again. A recent
case brings this claim strongly to
mind. .During a ball . game at Dal-
.- SOKXBTimi WAS SXXX TO JTAIiTXB.
las," Tex, on the 4th of July Charles
Harrington Of Dallas. twhUe In1 tbe
pitcher's box, was struck In the stom
ch by a ball from the bat After be
ing struck Harrington ' picked up the
ball and threw a runner out at first
The ball was returned to him, and as
he "'caught It and was in the act of
again pitching It he threw op 'his
bands and toppled orer; a corpse.
.Tragic events of .this. sort seem to
happen In connection with some sport
or other, mi (
- One of the best, known among recent
professional cyclists to' Australia was
James SomervHle. .Three years ago he
was farorlte among fifty starters., for
the Sydney Cricket duh vcupr The
eyent one mile was xlecliled on an as
phnlf track at fiydney' during a big
iectrlt l-nght carniTal.'; 8omerrllla'a
only serious rlTtl was another, fast
rU. Percy CAS. There was a roar e
applause ss these twe swung inta the
home stretch- well.-ahead f:lt -other
jomtort"ad rely yard apart
This distance they maintained till
wltLIa tifrtr yards of he Up.r At
falter; his hands sloped from the ban.
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u.v vers, kiki ibbi neazeir xorwaro
But his machine,' underwits terrlie Im
pulse, hot enwardr ihtt- rliar's feet la
their toe dips, still revolving, with the
pedals. . He crossed the line. a. few
6
lnches'la f.-ontcf C::T and then ml 6
and machine collapsed In a heap. He S
was quite coaa when picked up, and
the doctors said it was net, the fall
that had killed fclaw Heart failure had
been the result of the strain, and he
had been dead before ever he breasted
the tapel -
Fatal Baatlns- Accident.
Many fatal accidents have happened
in the hunting field, but never perhaps
so extraordinary a one as occurred to
the master of the Westchester bounds
in England. The season was almost
over, and it was arranged to take a
photograph of the hounds on tbe morn
ing before the last meet; The master
at upon his horse with a stuffed fox
la Lis arms, and around him were
."rod the huntsmen, whlrpers In
; sfvrral irominent members of the
i. Tie il.o:-rra;h had Just teen
t ' 1 vi 1 1 st Cat rise ent one cf the
". 'i fv .t r' ' t cf the stuITod fox
i..'.'-''.: a r '. s vr"ar-l toward It.
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