Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 174, Hammond, Lake County, 10 January 1907 — Page 5
Thursday, Jan. 10, 1907.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
RAILROAD NOTES. A. J. Ilinea, who has been bridge
"engineer of the Nickel Plate road, has
been promoted to assistant chief engineer, and P. IL Tinker, who has
been bridge builder, la now bridge engineer.
W. F. Tergana, traveling machinist
of the Erie road, is In Hammond on business today.
mi . Ti.. owe, conaucto Telegraph News by Direct ba6h has returned from
- . inenas at barren. Ind
wire irom iui uver
Rowe, conductor on the Wa-
a visit with
Indiana.
EyanavIJIe, Ind, Jan. 10. The flood danger here bag passed. The Ohio river Is slowly receding. The crest came when the stage reached forty and onehalf feet. The highest water recorded Jn local history since 1SS4, when fortyelfrht feet was reached. The loss to corn In this section is not as great a3 first anticipated. The farmers had
II. W. Duffner, local asrent for the
Nickel Plate and Lake Shore, transacted business In Chicago last night.
idone
...Clark By FRANK H. SPEARMAN
CowogHt. 1900, by Frank H. Spearman
W. G. Robinson, brakeman on the
Nickel Plate road, has been absent from his run for the past week on ac
count of injuries received at his home in Warsaw.
Fred R. Slater, engineer on tho r.nke
Shore road, is off duty this week with the grip.
The legislature of Tennessee, which
met on Monday, will infrrtnp. a mm
warning and removed their live stock to reduce the railroad rates for passen-
ers irom d cents to 2 cents a mile.
The bill. It is said, will have strong
support in both legislative bodies.
and most of their com to places of
safety. About 1,000 bushels of corn U reported to be lost. Much Liand Under Water. Thousands of acres in this section are under water, with many families driven from their homes. In later years the farmers in the lowlands take
Vin. 1 CO I 4,..1 - .
v , I ..v..-, uCLi tno original light did and as light
ixitir uomrs, uarns ana UKe structures much more effective
above the high water mark of that
jear. llie local waterworks Is on a Two ears of imported horses paysed hijrh rumiud, entirely 6tirrounded bv through Hammond last night on the
water, and reached bv boats. No nnr- Erif coming from Belgium to New
HERE goes a fellow that walks like Siclone Clark," exclaimed Duck Middle ton. Duck was sittinginthe trainmaster's office
with a group of engineers. He was one of the blacklisted strikers and runs an engine now down on the Santa Fe. r,nt t ions
Intervals Duck gets back to revisit the scenes of his early triumphs. The men
surrounded him wo r,n. t
who
The new and improved Pvle electric
headlight has been in service on enSine 301 of the Monon for three months and has proved very satisfactory. One feature of this headlight is that it costs about one-third of what
is
tieular loss is expected in this city
from the high water, although some factories are temporarily closed.
Store Cellars Full of Water
York, whence they were sent through to Chicago.
Employes of the Clover Leaf in the various operating departments, have prepared a petition and presented it to the officers of the road, asking for increased pay. The new schedule will
call for substantial increase in the pay of every man in the train service.
Murry T. Lawrence of the Chicago
Wabash office, was In Hammond on
The water backed up through the buElness yesterday.
powers and filled many cellars In the n.,..-.., . , ...
luuiroc tt , .w..wau uuiuais are eiunying me
-u., uu,u. Aui nus auiiciparea. Mv n -ui,
film r nKinpcQ m an tivr.o i,..4. 1 . J
" ' F"i"'icu iui muL teres t. as thr w a i
eventuality, not having to stop husi- crease in the money required t eetness. Pigeon creek, which empties into tie with the advances which became
the river and runs throueh the lrvwpr effective Jan. l
part of the city, is bank full, but no
particular damage has resulted, how-
over. The river in front of the citv
stretches out like a great lake, covering
the point which causes the river to
form a crescent. Uoats can now cross
farms and save many miles of travel.
The sight is very interesting. Eel Hiver Is lioomlng.
Urazil, Ind., Jan. 10. Eel river has
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levee at Brunswick has broken, flood- ilfe in rai i ""Z
ju niv? nmmuos in me soiunern part aianapolis Star.
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w . vwLi(. i. muiiin-i luminal aaia tie, could redue
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a l)le nameworK for all railroad rar
in a collision the railroad cars that w n , r i ...
..oi.o iciescope JIKe ODera hats
and the loss of life is frightful.
wouia D9 but little chance of loss o
ira fwr Y n. , ...
j ucau-enn collisions if steel
ere usea as the framework for th
.o, mo Sleei might bend, but 1
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,l(Ji iciescope. ur course th
uo" or supplanting all 0f the cars now
in use with others of the kind T h
oiuuw WOUUl 1)R PTIftrmrvnc i
"uo, uui. wna
mu.u inui cost do as compared with the loss of life in a single rpilrn
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LANDIS WANTS STEEL CARS.
Representative Fred Landis has
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uuus wun uuck and his chums, though now the ancient enmities seem forgotten, and Duck, the once ferocious Duck, sits occasionally among the new
meu ana gossips about early days on
tue vtSL 111(1.
i-'o you remember Siclone, Heed'' asked Duck, calling to me in the pri-
T? am 1,1
""UCUJUC1 liim. i echoed "Did anybody who ever knew Siclone forget
utui 1 "I flrpfl nncetnTm
iut! iur oiCJ011e twenty years ago," resumed Duck "He walked just like that fellow, only he
quivwr. A reckou you fellows don't know what a snap you have here now," he continued, addressing the men around him. "Track fenced, nine
ty pound rails,, steel bridges, stone culverts, slag ballast, skyscrapers-no
wonuer you gQt chances to haul such nobs as Lllluokalani and Schlev nnr?
Dewey and cut ninety miles an hour
on Tangents.
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out with It He discovered his change Just as Fit got out of his chair. Siclone came back, replaced the hat on the table it had Fitzpatrick's name
yasieu in tue crown iook up nis own I 4
hat and as b itz reached for hi3 looked T
at him. Every one in the shop caught their breaths. "Is your name Fitzpatrick?'' "Yes, sir." "Mine is Clark." Fitzpatrick put on his hat. "You're running the 313, I believe?" continued Siclone. "Yes, sir." "That's my engine." "I thought it belonged to the company."
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this trouble is settled,'
amiably. Fitzpatrick met him steadily
said Siclone
against the boiler head. Siclone claimed I tried to climb the smokestack, but he was excited. Anyway, he stood out there with a shovel and kept the whole bunch off me. I thought thev would kill him. But I never tried to chase range steers on foot again. "In the spring we got the rains not like you get now, but cloudbursts. The section men were good fellows, only sometimes we would get into a storm miles from a section gang and strike a place where we couldn't see a thing. "Then Siclone would stop the train, take a bar and get down ahead and
sound tne roadbed. Many and many a washout he struck that way which would have wrecked our train and Tvound up our ball of yarn in a minute. Often and often Siclone would go into his division without a dry thread on him. "Those were different days," mused the grizzled striker. "The old boys are scattered now all over this broad land. The strike did it, and you fellows have the snap. Cut what I wonder often and often Is whether Siclone Is really alive or not." Siclone Clark was one of the two
cowboys who helped Harvey Reynolds and Ed Banks save 59 at Griffin the night the coal train ran down from Ogallala. They were both taken into the service. Siclone after awhile went to wiping. When Bucks asked his name, Sicloue answered, 'S. Clark." "What's your full name?" asked Bucks. "S. Clark."
"But what does S stand for?" per
sisted Bucks.
"Stands for Cyclone, I reckon. Don't
it?" retorted the cowboy, with some
annoyance,
It was not usual in those days on the plains to press a man too closery about
his name. There might be reasons why it would not be esteemed cour
teous.
"I reckon it do," replied Bucks, drop- house and took out the 313 as usual
mm into Siclone's jrrammnr. And Ior U1s run.
without a quiver he registered tfce new man as Siclone Clark, and his checks always read that way. The name seemed to fit. He adopted it
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"Maybe It does, but I've agreed to I kill the man that takes her out before !
you'll let me know when it takes place, j
I'll try and be there." "I don't jump on any man without fair warning. Any of the boys will tell you that," continued Siclone. "Maybe you didn't know my word was out?"
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Fitzpatrick hesitated. "I'm not looking for trouble with any man," he replied guardedly, "but since you're disposed to be fair about notice it's only fair to you to say that I did know your vord was out." "Still you took her?" "It was my orders." "My word is out. The boys know It Is good. I don't Jump any man without fair warning. I know you now, Fitzpatrick, and the next time I see you, look out." And without more ado Siclone walked out of the shop, greatly to the relief of the barber If not of Fitz. Fitzpatrick may have wiped a little sweat from his face, but he said noth
ing, only walked down to the round
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A week passed before the two men met again. One night Siclone, with a
crowd of the strikers, ran Into half a dozen of the new men, Fitzpatrick
without any objection, and after every- among tnem, and there was a riot. It
When I was firing for Siclone th
roadbed was just off the scranprs th
dumns wpr. anft r,;u wuui
iwrfa fif,-d ' I,JPer body came to know him it fitted so Siclone's time to carry out his In
" ittJJO, nut u xi.aU that Riicka trn ,t.-,. tpntinn fVr- tTl-Q. - i
second sight when he named the hare- scorned to try to get away. No tree brained fireman. He could get up a ever breasted a tornado more sturdily
storm quicker man any man on the than the Irish engineer withstood SI
division and, if he 'felt so disposed, clone, but when Ed Banks got there
stop one quicker.
In spite of his eccentricities, which
were many, and his headstrong way of
doing some things, Siclone Clark was
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fence west of Buffalo gap and the Plains black with Texas steers. We never closed our cylinder cocks. The
mss of the steam frightened the cattle
worse than the whistle, and we never
knew when we were going to find a
Duncn of critters on the track
sua ursc winter I came out was
great for snow, and I was a tenderfoot
FOU MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
mayor of KvansTille Wants the City to Run Its Own Illumination Plants. Evansville. Ind., Jan. 10. Mayor Jonn W. Boehne in his annual message to the city council went on record as favoring a municipal gas and lighting plant. The city's thief executive has been "feeling" the members of the administration and his close friends on tho subject for the last three months, and most of them agreed that municipal ownership was just the thing for Fvansville just now. The service of the local gas and electric light company has been far from satisfactory for several mouths, and
FIEE IN THE M. C. SHOPS.
, .Ui Bl jaeKson la Danirer f,
a Time.
Fire in the blacksmith Rhnni. , v
VCIUia at . OPcnn II j
- - o . v t uitii or aamnfro an a t
time threatenpri th .
Indignant citizens have complained flames originated from an niAi fillip !Tr1 nrr.:,. 11.. 1 1 . tt o . AP10S10n
nuvA uiiiu iu uie ioaru or mih- 11 a iaisc on iamn.
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lie Avorks. The company has for many years enjoyed a monopoly of the Evnnsville field. Mayor Boehne, In his advocacy of municipal OAvnershlp, has as his supporters some of the best known business men of the city. Just what ways and means will be devised to build a municipal lighting plant is uncertain. They city will not be able to float bonds, as it has its full limit of indebtedness under the law.
were under
and before thev
control tha
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c.wr.uuie uamage done to
m,t n Z W 'rty men are thrown
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adjoining-
Pins His Faith on Feathers. ITaz.leton. Ind.. Jan. 10. During a ftorm whicli swept over this vicinity at an early hour in the morning, lightning struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Scott
anno, west of this place, and they were thrown violently from their bed
to the floor, while splinters, broken
brick and fragments of mortar rained on them. The bolt tore a hole in the
root and struck the bedpost, tearing it to pieces. Mr. and Mrs. Kabb attribute
jueir escape from injury to the fact that they were sleeping on a feather bed. "I never feel a bit of danger rrom thunder." says Kabb. "All I do is to stick to the feathers."
Brothers Die the Same Way. rrtv ? Ind- Jan- 10- - Afcr n L J f f 3ntly kiUod at Edgerton, ?;;la tra on the Lake Shore railway. He was standing on a step a"J"?7h on a, track, and he teppM on the main line la time to be caught by the fast maU. (;ray.s broth er was killed in a similar Wav a .op ago. " ' Dog Kicks Over a Lamp. Wabash, Ind., Jan. 10. A trained dog belonging to the Holder circus, now In winter quarters here, kicked ov-r a lamp and set fire to an old building where the animals were quartered. There was a panic among the animals
but the flames were subdued before any great damage was done.
DEATH FOUND HER RESIGNED. AI r, . .
"umi" re Husband's Departure
wun considerable Equanimity.
1Ml veaia. "Gatu no sting" for
some people is evidenced by the story of a physician whose practice called him to the homes of many of the poorer families who labor in Chicago's stockyards.
"I was summoned to attend one man who was in the last stages of tuberculosis," he relates, "and found him very low. His wife was a sturdy woman of vehement temperament and seemed not the least concerned over her husband's desperate condition. I left directions with her for the man's comfort and promised to call In the morning. " 'When I entered next morning I found the woman enveloped in a fog of suffocating steam and vigorously doing her washing. She turned her head as I was let in by one of the children and, nodding, continued her work.
" 'How is the good man this morning?' I asked. " 'Oh,' she said in a tone which seemed to indicate that I had recalled
an unpleasant matter to her mind.
Then turning toward the bed-room
door she shouted:
"'John, are you there? There was no answer from the sick chamber. She turned to resume her washing and said: 'He's breathed his last."'
Tha n .i ,3 ,-J . I a ( cufcmr"1 ueserwu a ueirer
whAnV. vvmuoreaKS, and fate than the one that befell him,
rrirr": ume been Jt to ms nking.
1 t7u su,lu n The strike was the worst thing that Zirl! lra?.k5benev?r -er happened to Siclone. He was one
v.to ..uuluu iu iiiove iuey wouia f tha v,i v,,. i
and string out mile after mile. Talk tt 7 77
about fast schedules and ninety miles 7 " 7. "L
.... IU UIOUIT WUU I 11 on thof cnmaV,H T-1i -r. ,
nn; M1WW lUeiU a mr tUe ln- and thought It a cinch that
the company would have to take them
all back.
snowdrifts
"One day Siclone and I were going west on 59, and we were late. For that
matter, we were always late. Simpson, coming against us on CO, had caught a bunch of cattle in the rock cut just
west of the Sappie and killed a couDle
When we got there, there must have been a thousand head of steers mousing around the dead ones. Siclone he
used to be a cowboy, you know Si
clone said they were holding a wake.
At any rate, they were still coming
The consequence was that, when we
staggered along without them, men like
hiclone, easily aroused, naturally of
violent passions and with no self re
straint, stopped at nothing to cripple
tne service. And they looked on the
men who took their places as entitled
neither to liberty nor life.
When our new men began coming
from the Reading to replace the strik
ers, every one wondered who would
from every direction ami n far flJ "wuuereu AVfl w
conwi gei tsicione ciarfs engine, the 313. SI-
" T Tr1.1 C!;n1 .3 Till . 1
with his wrecking crew and straight
ened things out Fitzpatrick was picked
up for dead. That night Siclone dis
appeared. Warrants were got out and search
ers put after him, yet nobody could or
would apprehend him. It was general
ly understood that the sudden disappearance was one of Siclone's freaks. If the ex-cowboy bad so determined
he would not haT. hidden to keep out of anybody's way. I have sometimes pondered whether shame hadn't something to do with It. His tremendous
physical strengtli was fit for bo much better things than beating other men
that maybe he himself sort of realized
It after the storm had passed.
Down east of the depot grounds at
McCloud stands or stood a great barnlike hotel, built in boom days and lone
a favorite resting place for invalids and travelers en route to California by easy stages. It was nicknamed the bar
racks. Many railroad men boarded there, and the new engineers liked It because it was close to the round
house and away from the strikers.
Fitzpatrick, without a whlae or a
complaint, was put to bed in the bap-
them out,' I said.
"'Ihat's the stuff, Duck.' says he. 'Get after them and see what you can
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clone had gently sworn to kill the first staff surgeons, was given charge of the
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Vhatever others thought of Siclone's
vaporings, they counted for a good
deal on the West End. Nobody wanted
trouble with him.
Even Neighbor, who feared no man.
sort of let the 313 lie In her stall as
long as possible after the trouble be
gan.
isouung was said about it. Threats
cannot be taken cognizance of officlal-
besldes. Nobody thought the Injured
man would live. But after every care
was given nim we turned our atten
tion to the troublesome task of operat
ing me road.
The 313, whether It happened so or
whether Neighbor thought it well to drop the disputed machine temporarily, was not taken out again for three
weeks. She was looked on as a hoodoo, and nohorlv
" " wuiuaiucu wiiu mreais rusea noinr n nnt nna i
an th tim: tw ,Q ' . - rM . J lv iaBtC ucr
VUA omvcicusBu ciaiming mat ne tiad troubles of his to move us. Yet Siclone's engine stay- own. Then one day something haped In the roundhouse. nened to Mrrw ,t-! .
Ihen, after Foley and McTerza and stranded for a
Sinclair, came Fitzpatrick from the was brouirht out for -m't tt
o rrr- .. . .. iiC
au jitia-ia was put on tne mans, didnt like it a bit
x?,.2. one day oa the Meantime nothing had been seen or
ru u uiew a cyunaer ceaa neard of Sic one. That n n
OUt Of the 416. the reason KfllKn, '
Iutzpatrick was waiting to take her his engine, but it ko,
out when she came stumping in on time the 313 weat ont t w,h
one pair of drivers, for we were using Siclone, not to speak of worse thinirs
i"iu uorsenesn tnen. inai morning about 3 o'clock the unBut of course the 416 was put out. lucky enzine was M,mw
The only gig left in the house was White Flier. The nic-ht w th. k.
me cSxo. racks nlwnro cm i, i i A.
"j " m a. uuu iuucu i or tne I imagine Neighbor felt the finger of Incoming and outeoinjr crows nn h
fate in it. The mail had to go. The mail run, and that morning when he time had come for the 313. He order- ws through he forgot to turn off th
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Money to Sum. The big touring car had just whizzed by with a roar like a gigantic rocket, and Pat and Mike turned to watch it disappear in a cloud ct dust. "Thim chug wagons must cost a hape av cash," said Mike. "The rich Is fairly burnin' money." "An the smell av it," sniffed Pat, "it must be thot tainted monev we do be hearin so much about." Success.
"lie stood out thtre unth a shovel and Itept the whole bunch, of me." do.' He looked kind of queer, but I never thought anything. I picked up a jack bar and started up the track. "The first fellow I tackled looked lazy, but he started full quick when I hit him. Then he turned around to inspect me, and I noticed his horns were of the broad gauge variety. While I whacked another the first one put his head down and began to snort and paw the ties. Then they a:i began to bellow at once. It looked smokv I
dropped the jack bar and started for the engine, and about fifty of them started for me. "I never had an idea steers could run so. You could have played checkers on my heels all the way back. If Siclone hadn't come out and jollied them. I'd never got back in the world. I 1nst
J Jumped the pilot and went clear ovjr
me," said
ed her fired.
"The man that ran this engine swore he would kill the man that took her out," said Neighbor, sort of incidentally, as Fitz stood by waiting for her to steam.
"I suppose that means Fitzpatrick.
"I suppose it does." "Whose engine is It?' "Siclone Clfk's." Fitzpatrick shifted to the other leg; "Did he say what I would be doing while this was going on?" Something in Fitzpatrick's manner made Neighbor laugh. Other things crowded in and no more was said. No more was thought. In fact. The 313 rolled as kindly for Fitzpatrick as for Siclone, and the new engineer, a quiet fellow like Foley, only a good bit heavier, went on and off her with never a word for anybody. One day Fitzpatrick dropped into a barber shop to get shaved. In the next chair lay Siclone Clark. Siclone pot through first and. stepping over to the table to get his hat, picked up Fitzpatrick's by mistake and walked
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lamp unuer nis cofTee tank. It over
heated the counter, and In a few minutes the woodwork was ablaze. If the frightened boy had emptied the coffee on the counter he could have put the fire ont, but instead he ran out to give the alarm and started upstairs to arouse the guests. There were at least fifty people asleep ln the house, traveling and railway men. Being a modern building, it was a quick prey, and in an Incredibly short time the flames were leaping
mruugu me secona story windows. When I got down men were jumping in every direction from the burning hotel. Railroaders swarmed around, busy with schemes for getting the people out, for none i more quick witted in time of panic. Short as the opportunity was, there were many pretty rescues, until the flamee, shooting up, cut off the stairs and left the helpers nothing for It but to stand and watch the destruction of the long, rambling building. Half a dozen of us looked from the dispatchers' offices in the second story of the depot. We had agreed that tbe people were all out when Foley be-
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