Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — On His Job. [ARTICLE]

On His Job.

Railroad men are telling this incident as having occurred on a Kansas train some time ago. The rails spread and the engine, tender and baggage car left the track, but the jar was not hard enough to disturb the sleepers in the rear Pullmans. In the last Pullman the porter was shining shoes and thinking that the train was stopping at an unusual place, he went ahead to see about the difficulty. He was told that within a couple of hours the engine could be put back and the track repaired. So he got .busy with his shoes again. Suddenly a head popped out of one of the berths and a man shouted: “Say, porter, what are we stopping here for?’’ “Oh," answered the porter, "we had a wreck ” “A wreck? Wow! Oh-oh-oh-wow-wow! My neck! My neck! My chest! My back! Oh-oh-oh!” —Kansas City Journal.