Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 178, Hammond, Lake County, 16 January 1907 — Page 5

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Kokomo, Ind.. Jan. 16. The unexpected appearance of his wife In tiie circuit court at Sioux Fulls, S. D., defeated the plans T. C. Hendrlx, of this city, fcad laid to obtain a divorce. Ilendrix bad been in Sioux Falls several months and thought he had arranged matters so well that there would be no difficulty about obtaining the decree be desired. Had. the Surprise of Ills Life, Without letting her husband know she Intended to make a defense to his suit Mrs. Ilendrix, accompanied by her brother, Charles Boone, went to Sioux Falls last week, and to the surprise of the plaintiff appeared In court the day the case was set to be tried. Ilendrix in his complaint had alleged abandonment, representing that his wife had left him while he was a resident of Kokomo. Ilis testimony before the court was In support of that allegation. In reply both Mrs. Ilendrix and her brother testified that Ilendrix had deliberately deserted his wife, leaving her without any means of support and manifesting not the slightest interest Jn her welfare after he had gone. Court Soaks Him Good and Hard. Judge -Jones, of Sioux Falls, as soon ns he had heard all the testimony, bit terly scored Ilendrix for attempting to impose on the court by misrepre sentations; charged him with going to South Dakota to apply for a divorce because he knew he could not get one In Indiana, and declared he did not deserve and would not receive the de cree he "was asking. He gave Mrs. Ilendrix permission to file a cross complaint, which she did at once, al leging abandonment and failure to pro vide. The court granted her a divorce and gave her judgment for $1,200 ali mony and $100 for attorneys' fees. MARVELOUS WINTER WEATHER Some Reports of the Season's Doings from Points in the Hoosier State. Mitchell, Ind., Jan. 16. Spring has come again for sure in this part of (Indiana, if nature has not got her dates mixed. The warm weather of the last few weeks has awakened animal and vegetable life from a short winter sleep. Blue birds are carrolr Ing, robins are fluting their notes and the toothsome red-eye is searching the drift piles in the creeks for the small boys bunch of angleworms. Snowdrops, crocuses, tulips and violets are in bloom; rosebuds are sending out tiny leaves and even larger shrubbery is showing leaves. Itees have been out of their hives every day for two weeks and bugs are flying about. lieorgo Elrod and John W. Adamson, who live several miles northeast of here, report that every night the valley along White river is filled with flying and flashing Cre-flies. Shelby ville, Ind., Jan. Hi. William Stcphans is convinced spring has come, temporarily at least. On going into his rear yard after church services he noticed a swarm of mosquitoes What the Miners Say. Clinton, Ind.. Jan. 10. State Mine Inspector Epperson and assistants, Jonathan Thomas and Itobert Irwin, are in Clinton and will make an ex a initiation and inspection of the No. 7 mine, in which an explosion oe currod. resulting in the death of eight men. The miners of Clinton say the explosion was caused by gas, and also that It has not been properly inspected for gas. Weut Back to Look. Linton, Ind., Jan. 1G. Itobert Johnson, employed in the Twin mine, after placing a charge and it failed to erplode, went back to examine it, was caught in the explosion and in etantly killed. He was S5 years, old, and leaves a widow. Matthew Sewell, hi helper, was seriously Injured. Was Haunted by Dead Eyes. T- X . "uuasn, ind., jan.m Even- se Jng the glaring eyes of the man whom he killed while running an engine, William Lupton became insane and is in jail. He will be taken to the asylum. His plight is pitiable, he be ing in constant terror. All Claims To Be Paid. Huntlngburg. Ind.. Jan. 10. Judge Ely, of the Dubois circuit court, has appointed F. II. Pootker receiver of the Teopie's State bank. The opinion is expressed that all claims will be paid in full. Broke His Neck and Died. P.ioomington, Ind.. Jan. 10. Willie Stewart, 15 years old, son of a wellknown citizen of Stinesville, fell out of the loft of his father's barn, breaking his neck. lie died in great agony. Killed While Coupling Cars. Evnnsville, Ind., Arthur Oliver, 2.1 years old, was crushed to death in the L. and N. railway yards. While coupling cars he tripped and was mashed between the couplings. Subwcrlbe for The Lake County Time.

RAILROAD NOTES. The state railroad commission of Tennessee has submitted a report which shows that there are now only fourteen counties out of the ninety-six in Tennessee which are not reached by the railroads. It is related in the report that one county, Hancock, in East Tennessee, has neither railroads, telegraph nor telephone connection with the rest of the world.

An eastern financial paper asks what is to be come of the C, IL & D. Its Indebtedness is piling up and at present there seems to be no way of adjusting Its affairs, and it is feared as a result of Its financial troubles the receiver will be forced to sell the road, it be ing the only method apparently to relieve the situation. Within a short time all the Pullman cars used on the Pennsylvania lines west will be thoroughly equipped with electric lights, including lights in the berths, as in the latest sleeping cars of limited trains. The storage system of lighting-will be used. P. A. Buck, chief clerk to Vice Presi dent Clark of the Missouri Pacific, re cently promoted to superintendent of the Illinois division at Chester, 111., as sumed the duties of his new position yesterday. A party of thirty-five Italians left j today for New York citv enroute to their native land. A. C. Crabill, division engineer of the Erie road, was a caller at the local office this morning. Train No. 3 on the Erie road, run ning from Huntington to Chicago, and due in irammond at 7:55 was three hours and five minutes late today. The Lackawanna Railroad company has decided to build $2,000,000 locomo tive shops in Scranton, which will be one of the largest plants in the country and will give employment to 1,000 men. The company expects to have it ready for occupancy the coming fall. Common ownership of all freight cars in the United States it, in effect, the radical plan advocated by some of the greatest railroads to increase the facilities to shippers and secure the utmost efficiency from the cars now In service. Amonsr the railroads which have agreed to pool their freight cars are: Hock Island system, 42,000 cars. Frisco system, 30,000 cars. Chicago & Eastern Illinois, 20,000 cars. Chicago & Alton, 11,000 cars. St. Paul system, 46,500 cars. Baltimore & Ohio system, 40,000 cars. Erie, 53,000 cars. Ilarrlman system. 70,000 cars. Pennsylvania system, 130,000 cars. Santa Fe system, 40,000 cars. Illinois Central system, 63,000 cars. If the projected electric air line be tween New iork. and Chicago, which proposes to make the distance in ten hors is a success, there will be a surDrised lot of railroad men and civil engineers, to say nothing of the public. At present every railroad man speaks decidedly against the proposition and deems it impossible. OPERATORS GST RAISE. An increase of $5 per month for all the telegraph operators of the wa bash system has been announced to take effect at once. Practically all the operators are now members of the union. Operators were practically forced to join the union or quit the service. If they did not the wires and circuits were closed on them and they could get no service. With the announce ment of the Increase it is also given out that henceforth when the operators are obliged to work at the noon hour they will be allowed twenty-five cents for dinner. MAIL CLERK GETS DUCKING. A few days ago the water spout on the Erie tank at Monterey was bro ken off by a train leaving without taking up the pipe. This caused a loss of all the water in the tank, which was flowing out with such force when the mail train passed that one of the mail clerks. Mr. Shipley, of DIsko, was almost drowned in the downpour. AGREEMENT ON WAGES Affects 27,000 Men and Takes in More Thau Two-Thirds of the United States. Chicago, Jan. 10. A final settlement was reached here between commlttes representing the railway managers and the locomotive engineers, and an agreement was entered into which includes all roads west of Fort William, Can.; St. Paul, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, to the Pacific coast, and south to the Mexican border. The new schedule is to go into effect Feb. 1, and will affect about 27.000 engineers. The terms of the agreement follow: Freight engineers, increase of 40 cents per day, of ten hours or less, 100 miles or less; overtime pro rata. Engineers in switching service, first-class yards, 3.73 per day of ten hours, or less; second-class yards, SS.oO per day of ten hours, or less; overtime pro rata. Transfer rates on Chicago belt lines, $-4 per day of ten hours; overtime pro rata. In the work train and helper service, the hours are reduced from twelve to ten per day. Passenger engineers on engines having cylinders under eighteeninchesin diameter. $3.75 per day of 100 miles, or less; cylinders eighteen inches or more in diameter, $4 per day of 100 mile?, or less. Absent-Minded. The Boston lawyer who tried tc kiss a stenographer against her will need not have testified that he "for got he was married." The evidence a to that was circumstantial, but coc clete.

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By FRANK H. SPEARMAN Copynshi, 1900, by Fraak H. Speuman WfcSiaSg3i SEE a good deal of stuff in print about the engineer," said Callahan dejectedly. "What's the matter with the dispatcher? What'sthematter with the man who tells the engineer what to do and Just what to do; how to do it, and exactly how to do it; with the man who sits shut in brick walls and hung in Chinese puzzles, his ear glued to a receiver and his finger fast to a key and his eye riveted on a train chart the man who orders and annuls and stops and starts everything within 500 miles of him and holds under his thumb more lives every minute than a brigadier does in a lifetime? For in stance," asked Callahan, In his tired way, "what's the matter with Bucks?" Now, I myself never knew Bucks. He left the West End before I went on. Bucks is second vice president which means the boss of a transcontinental line now and a very great swell. But no man from the West End who calls on Bucks has to wait for an audience, though bigger men do. They talk of him out there yet. Not of General Superintendent Bucks, which he came to be, nor of General Manager Bucks. On the West End he is Just plain Bucks, but Bucks on the West End means a whole lot. "He saved the company $300,000 that night the Ogalalla train ran away," mused Callahan. Callahan himself is assistant superintendent now. Three hundred thousand dollars is a good deal of money, Callahan," I objected. Figure it out yourself. To begin with, fifty passengers' lives that's $5,000 apiece, isn't it?" Callahan had a cold blooded way of figuring a passenger's life from the company stand point. "It would have killed over fifty passengers if the runaway had ever struck 59. There wouldn't have been enough left of 59 to make a decent funeral. Then the equipment, at least $50,000. But there was a whole lot more than $300,000 In it for Bucks." 'How so?" 'He told me once that if he hadn't saved 59 that night he would never have signed, another order anywhere on any road." "Why?" "Why? Because after it was all over he found out that his own mother was aboard 59. Didn't you ever hear that? Well, sir, it was Christmas eve, and tlae year was 1SS4." Christmas eve everywhere, but on the West End it was Just plain Dec. 24. "High winds will prevail for ensuing twenty-four hours. Station agents will use extra care to secure cars on sidings. Brakemen must use care to avoid being blown from moving trains That Is about all Bucks eald in his bulletin that evening not a word about Christmas or Merry Christmas. In fact. If Christmas had come to McCloud that night they couidn't have held it twenty-four minutes, much less twenty-four hours the wind was too high. All the week, all the day, all the night, it had blown a December wind, dry as an August noon, bitter as powdered ice. It was In the early days of our western railroading, when we had only one fast train on the schedule the St Louis-Calif ornla express and only one fast engine on the division the 101 ana only one man on the whole West End Bucks. Bucks was assistant superintendent and master mechanic and trainmaster and chief dispatcher and storekeeper and a bully good fellow. There were some boys in the service, among them Callahan. Callahan was seventeen, with hair like a sunset and a mind auick as an air brake. It was his first year at the key. and he had a night trick under Bucks. Callahan claims it blew so hard that night that it blew most of the color out of his hair. Sod houses had sprung up like dog towns in the buffalo grass during the fall. But that day home steaders crept into dugouts and smoth ered over buffalo chip fires. Horses and cattle huddled into friendly pockets a little out of the worst of it or froze mutely In pitiless fence corners on the divides. Sand drove gritting down from the Cheyenne hills like a storm of snow. Streets of the raw Drairie towns stared deserted at the sky. Even cowboys kept their ranches. and through the gloom of noon the sun cast a coward snaaow. it was a wretched day, and the sun went down with the wind tuning into a gale and all the boys in bad humor, except Bucks. Not that Bucks couldn't get mad, but It took more than a cyclone to start him. No. 59, the California express, wa3 late that ni&ht All the way up the valley the wind caught her quartering. Really, the marvel is that out there on the plains such storms didn't blow our toy engines clear off the rails. For that matter, they might as well have taken the rails, too, for none of them went ver sixty pounds. Fiftynine was due at 11 o'clock. It was half past 12 when she pulled in and on Callahan's trick. But Bucks hung around the office until she staggered up uncier the streaked moonlight, as frowsy a looking train as ever choked on alkali. j the station to meet 59, She was the

big arrival of the day at McCloud even if she didn't get in until 11 o'clock at night She brought the mail and the express and the landseekers and the traveling men and the strangers generally, so the McCloud livery men and hotel runners and prominent citizens and prominent loafers and the city marshal usually came down to meet her. But It was not so that night The platform was bare. Not even the hardy chief of police, who was town watch and city marshal all combined, ventured out. The engineer swung out of his cab with the silence of an abused man.

His eyes were full of soda, his ears full of sand, his mustache full of burs and his whiskers full of tumbleweeds. The conductor and the brakemen climbed sullenly down, and the bag gageman shoved open his door and slammed a trunk out on the platform without a pretense of sympathy. Then the outgoing crew climbed aboard and In a hurry. The conductor elect ran downstairs from the register and pulled his cap down hard before he pushed ahead against the wind to give the engineer his copy of the orders as the new engine was coupled up. The fireman pulled the canvas jealously around the cab end. The brakeman ran hurriedly back to examine the air connections and gave his signal to the conducter. The conductor gave his to the engineer. There were two short, choppy snorts from the 101, and 59 moved out stealthily, evenly, reslstlessly into the teeth of the night. In another minute only her red lamps gleamed up the yard. One man still on the platform watched them recede. It was Bucks. He came up to the dispatcher's of fice and sat down. Callahan wondered why he didn't go home and to bed, but Callahan was too good a railroad man to ask questions of a superior. Bucks might have stood on his head on the stove and It redhot without being pursued with inquiries from Calla han. If Bucks chose to sit up out there on the frozen prairies in a flimsy barn of a station and with the wind howling murder at 12 o'clock past and that on Chri the 24th of December, it was Bucks' own business. "I kind of looked for my mother to night " said he after Callahan got his orders out of the way for a minute. "Wrote she was coming out pretty soon for a little visit." "Where does your mother live?" "Chicago. I sen her transportation two weeks ago. , Reckon she thought she'd better stay home for Christmas. Back in God's country they have Christmas Just about this time of year. Watch out tonight, Jim. I'm going home. It's a wind for your life." Callahan was making a meeting point for two freights when the door closed behind Bucks. He didn't even sing out "Good night." And as for Merry Chri well, that had no place on the West End anyhow. "D-i, d-i, d-1, d-i," canie clicking ioto the room. Callahan wasn't asleep. Once he did sleep over the key. When he told Bucks, he made sure of hi3 time, only he thought Bucks ought to know. Bucks shook his head pretty hard that time. "It's awful business, Jim. It's murder, you know. It's the peni tentiary if they should convict you. But it's worse than that If anything happened because you went to sleep over the key, you'd have them on your mind all your life, don't yon knowforever. Men and and children. That's what I always think about the children; maimed and scalded He poured bullets into the unlucky casement. and burned. Jim, if it ever happens again, quit dispatching. Get into commercial work; mistakes don't cost life there; don't try to handle trains. If it ever happens with you, you'll kill yourself." That was all he said. It was enough, And 'no wonder Callahan loved him. The wind tore frantically around the station, but everything else was so still. It was 1 o'clock now and not a soul about but Callahan. D-i, D-I, J, clicked sharp and fast. "Twelve or fourteen cars passed here just now east running a-a-a." Callahan sprang up like a flash listened. What! Running away? It was the Jackson operator calling. Callahan jumped to the key. "What's that?' he asked quick as lightning could dash it "Twelve or fourteen cars coal passed here, fully forty miles an hour, headed east driven by the wi" That was all J could send, for Ogali alia broke in. Ocalalla Is the statioa

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just west of Jackson. And with Callahan's copper hair raising higher at every letter, this came from Ogalalla, "Heavy gust caught twelve coal cars on side track; sent them out on main line off down the grade." They were already past Jackson, eight miles away, headed east and running down hill. Callahan's eyes turned like hares to the train sheet. Fiftynine, going west was due that minute to leave Callendar. From Callendar to Griffin is a twenty miles' run. There Is a station between, but in those days no night operator. The runaway coal train was then less than thirty miles west of Griffin, coming down a forty mile grade like a cannon ball. If 5.4 could be stopred at Callendar, she could be laid by In five minutes out of the way of the certain destruction ahead of her on the main line. Callahan seized the key and began calling "Cn." He pounded until the call burned into his fingers. It was an age before Callendar answered. Then Callahan's order fled: "Hold 59. Answer quick." And Callendar answered: "Fifty-nine just pulling out of upper yard. Too

late to stop her. What's the matter?" Callahan struck the table with his clinched fist looked wildly about him, then sprang from the chair, ran to the window and threw up the sash. The moon shone a bit through the storm of f and, but there was not a soul in sight. There were lights in the roundhouse a hundred yards across the track. He pulled a revolver every railroad man out there carried one those days and. covering one of the roundhouse windows, began firing. It was a risk. There was one chance, maybe, to a thousand of his killing a night man. But there were a thousand chances to one that a whole train load of men and women would be killed inside of thirty minutes if he couldn't get help. He chose a window in the machinists' section, where he knew no ona usually went at night. He poured bullets Into the unlucky casement as fast as powder could carry them. Reloading rapidly, he watched the roundhouse door, and, sure enough, almost at once. It was cautiously opened. Then he fired into the air one, two, three, four, five, six and he saw a man start for the station on the dead run. He knew, too, by the tremendous sweep of his legs that it was Ole Anderson, the night foreman, the man of all others he wanted. "Ole," cried the dispatcher, waving his arms frantically as the giant Swede leaped across the track and looked up from the platform below, "go get Bucks. I've got a runaway train going against 59. For your life, Ole, run!" The big fellow was into the wind with the word. Bucks boarded four blocks away. Callahan, slamming down the window, took the key and began calling Rowe. Rowe is the first station east of Jackson. It was now the first point at which the runaway coal train could be headed. "R-o, R-o," he rattled. The operator must have been sitting on the wire, for he answered at once. As fast as Callahan's fingers could talk he told Rowe the story and gave him orders to get the night agent who, he knew, must be down to 6ell tickets for 59, and pile all the ties they could gather across the track to derail the runaway train. Then he began thumping for Kolar, the next station east of Rowe and the second ahead of the runaways He pounded and he pounded, and when the man at Kolar answered Callahan could have sworn he had been asleep just from the way he talked. Does it seem strange? There are many strange things about a dispatcher's senses, "Send your night man to west switch house track and open for runaway train. Set brakes hard on your empties on siding to spill runaways if possible. Do anything and everything to keep them from getting by you. Work quick." Behind Kolar's O. K. came a frantic call from Rowe. "Runaways passed here like a streak. Knocked .the ties Into toothpicks. Couldn't head them." Callahan didn't wait to hear any more. He only wiped the sweat from his face. It seemed forever before Kolar spoke again. Then It was only to say, "Runaways went by here be fore night man could get to switch and open it" Would Bucks never come? And if he did come, what on earth could stop the runaway train now? They were heading into the worst grade on the West Lnd. It averages 1 per cent from Kolar to Griffin, and there we get down off the Cheyenne hills with a long reverse curve and drop Into the canyon of the Blackwood with a 3 per cent grade. Callahan, almost beside himself, threw open a north window to look for Bucks. Two men were flying down Main 6tpeet toward the station He knew them; it was Ole and Bucks But Bucks! Never belore or since was seen on a street of McCloud such a figure as Bucks, in his trousers and slippers, with his nightshirt free as he sailed down the wind. In another In stant he was bounding up the stairs "What have you done?" he panted, throwing himself into the chair. Cal lahan told him. Bucks held his head in his hands while the boy talked. He turned to the sheet asked quick for 59. "She's out of Callendar. I tried hard to stop her. I didn't lose a sec ond; she was gone." Barely an instant Bucks studied the sheet Routed out of a sound sleep after an eight hour trick and on Such a night by such a message, the mar-, vel was he could think at all, much less set a trap which should save 59. In twenty minutes from the time Bucks took the key the two trains would be together. Could be save the passenger? Callahan didn't believe it. A sharp, quick call brought Griffin.' We had one of the brightest lads on the whole division at Griffin. Callahan, listening, heard Griffin answer.; Bucks rattled a question. How the (To be be concluded In next lujr

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