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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-2-20, Page 7Ilivia .wi► ►^v-,vr► viaia,,V w• ► •'l! eirAw ^11r11N11110 Feel by -a ler as 1, Sonne gaamt had (' CREi str'uek the, well with his fiat. iJ TIIE WC KING CPT 'J'1ieY tunikrlgd clot in excitemont, and ran around to the side of the -- -- building just as the last of the flyer There ''have Been Many Miraculous escapes by whirled past. ,glancing_up at the wall, they could see, a deep 'gouge Passengers When Trains Smash Up and scratch and on the ground a c iv +►o* wws rim r l► +& ivtio s i0rg•1i �✓ viti!riii tD tweivc-ineh length el rail.painfully of • the wreck, and "What's that?" some tried to help others less for- tunate',but still the as spread, and those,neare'st e breakbegan i e deadly ' Dison, froma flagman, wasjust/ableto C izn P1 downem- the tassels to wiatn .an a roaaching' freight of . he danger. Looking up,e says he saw on -the roadbeside •e 'track ., taut a oa• be a runawa, , andin his half-dazed.con iOn e stoppedan watchedii blankly. The roadswerve just beyond the embankment,:an ere two en left_thebuggyat a: leap �eaav ing the horse to rise on down. the road until he was tired. 'The flagman saw buggy after bug- gy rush up and`its occupants dis- appear within the ears. el ow manypeople Orville Brown and his friends: saved ,freni asphyx- iation in the wreck on Manch 7,, 1907, none of them know.The flagman sets it down roughly at from 50 to 75,but longbefore even the second buggy bad arrived Brown, as if -by instinct, had found Anne`, Corbett. She ay a crumpled heap between, two e in the third ear, y but of fattal crushed, her lungs filaQu with the fatalgas. With a 'Strength that astonished him, rown released her from her cap- tivity .and carried her to safety. It was oiil a sheet time before, s rua23rdof'o e year, that • they had what is considered the most providential wreck that ^ever ' o ecurred on the Keystone Route.. How it got these was a subject of immediate diseuestion, but there The question was simple enough, was no solution unless isome parson p e,' . ;ll h g ad of- unusual strength had hurled it ,s but fixers was a nate o£ sudden alarm in the speaker's voice than the, hem the swiftly passing train. startled" the little wedding' party to breathe the. y P ',then someone noticed it was waiting on the letform of the rail- I gat the story y fi smooth and glistened on the sur - road P �vhm jt abl 1' b th face as if it had been freshlyrun roaNi station, says a writer in the` Railroad Men's Ma- azinq. bankment and star t over. This led the discussion i o g "What's that?" .returned some- pp the track, which was 50' feet away, one, as•if annoyed b . an un: leaea.at t l3 k' g h and there it was immediately dhs- J Y P h b 1 the covered that the'end of a rail had intrusion; ' "That 1 That 1 Don't you hear ?'' tih pp ued to been torn away. The. broken •end As the, sharp inquiry brought si-• lit h fitted in ezae•tly. lance, far across the hill in the d `t bl kl .Later it was decided that the en- d gine, in' parsing," had_ flung"it direction the speaker was p and rd 1h against the side of the hotel, and. .oho be heard the echo' attd re- 1 1 ° the res of the .train had •ass- echo of an nnusal sound. It was m that he t, pass- . unlike a blast or thunder, o.r even ed over the gap. It seems irepessh- the rumble of a, train. wvn;. It was a sound that none of them , everheardbefore, and eaeh 't t d Occurrences : such as -these bred had e pp 1 caution along the whole eystte.m, was as startled by it as he' tivoilld 1 and anything in the least out of the have been by the warning buzz' of p p g. a rattlesnake. Instinctively ,they . way 'came'in for prompt attention, felt that the sound 'spe spelled troll -131e, As an exa,mple of this, they tell the and ,somehow, .the trouble seemed story of Oarl Gill, baggagemaster. ver. close to thorn. What gayety; . It was 'much. later, the night -be - there b f fore Thanksgiving, and Gill was therehad been among thein rapidly" . diel out, and•they:looked into each kept busy late into ` the evening other's faces with perplexity and had looking after the trunks of people alarm hie,' but there is no other explana- who, were taking advantage of the The mystifying sound echoed it- 1 1 i b t holiday, when he heard a strange l aw bet one or. two wit seats 1 ' d , ball noise mixed in with time rattling of self ay, sharper ears thought they heard' a b n ly h d, 1 1 a passing, freight. He knew the ' and attenuated, like . g sounds of trains, and he realized screech, . thin a to gt h d there was something wrong with a woman's cries in the distance. B 1 d this one, but, even as he tried to Then -there °fliers carne a low rumble a distinguish what it was, there was collection of minor sounds too oaf- fling to describe, but hardly loud' Y a rattle and a slight thump, and -enough to reach the straining ears on F b ry th same the. train continued with its usual that caught them noises.. Orville Brown; the expectant Gill was.. busy, but after the bridegroom, feeling that it was uli h K freight paesed he oo•uld not help to himto do -something,polled out thinking about the odd sound it his watch and :said :made. Finally, he stepped to the "Train must be late. It's due ~� door and looked down the track.. here now." ° He bad no partticula.r purpose ex - here to Brown out of one of b h 1 t sept to ease his mind;,, but he saw It was midnight and train No. 29, the famous eighteen, -hour ape- tial west �ound, was an our late - With only" eighteen hours to cover 1,000 miles,the loss ofan hour near the beginning meant that some- where farther Ont ere was going be rapid travelling, and 'a little of it was going on. Even Mineral Point eight miles m o n wn, although a' bad chive, lost some o its terrors in the anxiety to get on, :and the special ;struck it with a trifle more `speed than it ' could stand. The • rails roared under' the strain the; spikes stirred ,uneasily in their wooden beds;andhen, with `a pull; they same out and the engine began pounding e ties. When it first went off it was going. so feast the crew ,say, that it did not swerve into the rtn a tore up500 feet of track before it ear- eened and began tearing out the telegraph poles. • e train happened to be filled with rather well-knoavm peop e that night, and for many hours rumors of.:a terrific s o life wentout, and a •actin impression was given that there hadbeen a frightful catastrophe. n fact, no one onthe `. received more than a severe jolting, although free cars were badlysmashed. The esca,e had been so mira,cu- kus that a shudder went through the whore company.The three r brokenbeyond repair; were piled up beside the track and 'burned, those merest va ori s . of dread, nothing, and was turning back p g, when something glistening in the Dame a certainty of cail�aiiaity.. It struck him fall at onne, and he cried g1 g distance caught his eye. out in terror : h He looked again, fancied he could ,r make out an object in the distance, That must have been the train to p t a, we heard. Itt',s wrecked that's and even `stepped :over on the 2, g tracks. ` The action was altogether what it is !" •--` .1 fib h sto In the first moment of asttonish- f unusual. ment those ab•out Brown'stared He had probably never done such with bulging eyes at.a person who pe arthing before, but he felt impelled g 0 y. suddenly a messag© from the dead, but one of them re- walked. down the track, and the covered quickly and sped to the g more he looked the more certain he telegraph operator's window to , p grew there was something on the g rails. find out if what he said was true, then, He' was soon back with the mews He hadba,ggage to checkout, and that train No. • 33, for which they g b g p d' g th t' hurried the faster in order to be were waiting, had left Irvineton' on back. No. 5, she limited, was al - time, but was now ten minutes late. hadreceived to 'investigate further. So he most due, but he did not consider; That was enough. Brown and one' i h d' h b t that at first, as he never had coca- of his friends leaped into a. buggy sign to week baggage uponait. .He 1 hitched near the station and whip -even heard it whistling; hi the dis- ped the horse into a gallon g p twice before he realized that. it As the wheels rattled down the The was ming i e on that track. street they left behind an ominous 1 h t At the thought he started :to run, conviction in the minds of the but by the. time he had come up others that there had really= been a ft lob f 1'f t with the object he could see the. wreck, and, although they .. had 1 g ' p headlight of the. engine down the nothing "to go by except Brown's fr' htf 1 track, In 30 seconds it would be occult exclamation, within five ph I f t th upon him'. ' minutes the road to Irvineton was whole ti cin eco The obstruction remained hardly filled with racing vehicles. ' But h h tl more than .a dark sha,clow until he Brown was not to be overtaken, was almost to it, and then he saw for on train. No. 33 was Miss Anne it was.the iron door of a freight Corbett of Parker's Landing, who p car. It had evidently broken loose was on her way to marry him. . h at one 'end, and the pounding She was alone: She wished it smashed cars although extremely ;against the side of the car was the that way. 'Avoiding the fuss and expensive and not first sound he had heard. When bustle of a wedding she had simply it broke -away altogether came the slipped away, sent a wire and taken b d - th aimp. a train to the home town of the the rails hist speed was so great that the engine was flung right QYer ba kward and rested "close beside the baggage ear, setting tt afire.. All in a minute, from whistling a love song to the girl he expected to greet at the end of the run, he found himself facing a slow Nest- ing. He felt as if he had the whole train across his knees -,'and, twist ing himself, he could ;see that the broken sloor tf the baggage car held him pinned down to the roof of the cab. The flames' were breaking out close to hint,and his chances looked slim. Harry Presoott, the dining -car oonductee, was first to see his dan- :ger, but the door was jammed fast. "bet ,alt ax, Harry," he groaned. '`Cut my legs off at tthe.knees, It's my only hope," Prescott made a jump for the first car: which lay on the side of the ditch, but could not get at the ax in its rack on account of .a girl who had her knees pinched between, the last two seats. lie took in the situation in an instant, .shoved hie• ,shoulder• under the broken seat- end,' released the girl, seized the ax with one hand, took her by. the arm with the other, and pulled her into the open. He did it ,incidentally, not even looking at the girl, but, as people will do in a state of great• excite- ment, he called to her as he ran : "Sorry I can't help you, but I got to nut 1?red Chalaners's legs off." She had fallen' in. a heap, too bruised to stand, but at his words she jumped to her feet and hob- bled off excitedly after him towards the engine. And, as ' she ran; she. began to sob : "Don't out . his legs off 1 Don't do, it, Please.. He's my Harry; I'm going to meet him to -day, and he can't walk without legs." Prescott neither heard nor„ saw' her, di but as he reached the engine he found Chalmers leaning back full: length to avoid the flames. His trousers were half ' burned, and even his cont was catching fire. There was no time to waste. "Pres- cott raised the ax and Chalmers closed his eyes. But the ax did not fall. The gill had seized it. Prescott swung around, as much to £void the flames as to face her; and she, pointing to the blazing door, cried: `Lift it off, can't you? Lift it off, I' tell you! -Didn't you lift it off mel" "It was no time to argue, and she held the ax with all her strength. '"Lift it off 1" she cried, again. "It's loose." • Cbal-raters heard the voice jiust as he was sinking into unconscious- ness, and instinctively raised him- self imself up. He was 'too muoh aston- ished at seeing the girl to ,realize what happened then; but, involute. tarily ` raising his leges, the weight gave way, a charred end of board fell aeross • his feet, and Presoott, quick to see .the chance, seized him by the aiim and pulled' him free from the cab: "I wanted to ride with you, Har - ray, without you're knowing it," the girl..whiepered to him. "Provi- dence must have made me take this train." • One of the most unusual' acci- dents on record occurred not long ago on the South African Railways. A passenger train making. 30 miles an hour collided with an elephant,' with disatsitrous "results. The engine was running tender fleet, and • the .elephant, conning leisurely along the track, head on, was expected by the engineer totake. to -the jungles. Instead, he charged the tender with his hugee bulk, only to pay for his daring with his life. His massive body was torn open. The tender and engine were thrown completely off the rails. Hee seized the end of it to lift it i e mo r e- c u weighed d e a but t w h track, off tr t mandshe was to marry. She he had .than he bargained.for. gHe could �, ed to meet only him, but he h, y been so elated at her coming that W 1 , th P tt b h hardly raise it from. the ground. ' back`turned he could not keep the secret to As he strained, has was himself. That aeoounted for the f 1 h 1 to the approaching train, and; crowd at the station and the sharp is struggling under the weight, • he in down upon r Pars which detected the unusual g 3 could .hear it pounding d w p sound On March 4t three. days before the amen wreck.' .e l s urg Flyer was taking• Altoona, at its usual gait o• 50 miles an our when the concussion causedby i< pas- sage in some 'way shocked a carload of dynamite into activity. It began as the first baggage car was passing, as near ab coobo gauged Serme of •the crew insist that ' was abreast -of e engine, ethersmaintain at 'trainhad passed half ,way,' but the fact that' the win�ci•oiats were allknocked Dai of the •orwar smoker tells i own story. Howevel , it does noirdo to start an argument on : the eta jec 1A cer- tain It was not one ter- rific dozen, each,cud er and more 'e- struetive than the one before. • e train was in full sst!in• , and there would not'have been anysense in stopping, but as each car passed it caught a broadside that smashed , l.r recl icall , tore the framework out from floor to roof, - snapped off the steps, andwrec e the -vestibules. By the time the last "car got its share the train was a mere tattered ra ent of rolling stock. And yet did leavethe ra.ils, and not a passenger was seriously injured. ` him, but, -lifting with all the Aline Corbett had been looking strength in him, he could not raise out the window, her mind filled with. could it high -enough to balance it off .the happy ,thoughts at the . re'alization a t track. that only a few minutes separated th t vt th gine Within a• few seconds the situa her from.the Hien of her choice. that t the tion had beoom,e crucial. The train The engine unlimbered for the last was practically upon. him,' and he stretch, a,nd the car swayed from : 1 1 d t had the 'door raised so high he side to side in its hurry to. bring her f d k 11 its could neither "drop it and save his to Warren. y o.wn skin, even if he had wished to, She smiled contentedly; but, rt a, or push, it oyer: The roar of the even as she smiled, -the. ,engines h b' t ' drivers was in his ears, but there saw an open switch before him, a taan qual he was on the' track, helpb se under b0-feort embamkment at Iris side, defoliation but a series, of half the load. and, aft ,the bottom, the pipe' line 1 d d d The train struck the end of the of the gtas company. h h f Th door, upon one 'end as it was, sine, It was no- question of stopping. g ply turned it over out of the way. The switch was under • him in a 11 'As it turned, Gill felt thin sudden flash and the engine, leaping from jerk and, holding tight to the edge, the rails, rolled and plunged over turned a 'complete somersault and e embankment, dragging behind every window, p S landed in the ditch without having it the whole train of cars. One by been touched by, the. engine, ' one 'they pitched and slid, rolled ppe k d . and tumbled with heavy, grotesque Fred Olialm�ers of the Frisco movementta until they smashed into System will swear to this one. The 'the ea oompany'e pipe'Bne and story came t6' Hite at third hand, broke it: f gm tg but even at,than I am inclined to Immediately the gas spread out it not believe with him• aver the wreck in a poisonous ` On any other niglht it would have cloud, seemingly intent on making been merely the chances of rail- oatsnstrop-h,e comiplete, and chok- a roading, but this night it was dif- the shrieks of•the injured and moiviahs 1 7 p ferent. �y ng.* For those who lay Helpless 14I f Feeling pretty fine I see some - 'the jumbled cars there was but That whole era of the first .six of X90 .had left a dee im- pression on e inen, any o them firmly believe that they were protected from the wrath, and some of the occurrexu es surely point to that cottelusio�n. On a•:leery 20th of, ' a the very worst periodo all, e crowd o hotel otters were in the oiimfor�ta le cillos chmies in the hotel at Rah- way, N.t undisturbed by ,ie con - one remarked. to hitn'as he' hooked re hope, -to be dragged up the em: hist engine to file Meteor. env- Le away from the steadily f tl c el "No mains for its"he grinned in reastng volume, gas .reply. "We'll fly to -day. Might There were'few to help, Even J that t be someone waiting for me at the h seriously hurth f the other end. . those who were not n that; they usltal 1 f h t 1 1 f And they did fly. Oho/leers open- were;;s�o badly,s�halre could do but little. taking it •easy ed up and took . the whole run at, b Minute after minute passed, and record speed, But this was, In that there was no help pave; that of a 7 1' l 1 1 t1 same evil period of 1907, and there Ballo 1 t few lien who sttainblod about in a stand, passing trains when stad was a 4,ompound cru 1'e at •o that, 11416111,460110111011.1101 Dainty Dishes. Bran Biscuit. -One and a quar- ter cups of bran, three-quarters of a sup of graham flour, one eup of white flour, quarter of a cup of shortening or ,drippings, Ore; cups of sour milk, `three, tabl"espoonfals of mmlassesa sue teaspoonful of so- da. Bake in a sheet like ginger- bread or in gen tins,' Mix soda in sour milk., Cornmeal Pudding. --One and a half cups of milk, one and a half tablespoonfuls (rounded) ,of corn- meal, one and a half tablespoonfuls of dried bread crumbs, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon- ful of brown sugar, quarter of a cup' of molasses, butter half the size of an. egg, one egg, a handful, of: raisins. When the milk boils 'stir in the cornmeal, bread crumbs, salt, and cinnamon, which have been mixed together, boil , a few minutes, cool, and add .the other ingredients,' beating them in well. Bake from. an hour to an hour.and a half in a moderate oven. Devonshire Squab Pie.—Either mutton orfpork is good in this, so long, as it is fresh and not too fat. First of 'all at the bottom of the dish: put a layer of the meat cut in small pieces; . next onions sliced, season -with pepper and salt to taste, then -a layer of sliced potatoes, next a layer of sliced apples; re- peat until the dish is full; cover with a crust made either -with drip- ping or •suet. Apple Snow—No , 1. --Beat the whites of three eggs to a meringue with' three tablespoonfuls' of pow- dered sugar, and.just before din- ner whip into them two cupfuls of smooth apple sauce. Serve heaped in small glasses—custard cups—or in a single dish. If you wish you may give a variation to -this: by lin- ing the bottom of the dish with strips of sponge cake moistened with cider. Put the "snow" on this by the spoonful. Be sure that the apple sauce is well sweetened, adding the sugar after it is cooked. Apple Snow—No. 2. --Make a custard of two.cups of hot milk, half a`cup of sugar,' and the yolks of three eggs. Stir over the fire in a double boiler until the custard thickens,' turn it into another ves- sel and let it become oold. Beat the: whites of the eggs stiff - with. a half cup of powdered sugar, and just before the dish is to be served grate four,large, firm apples into the meringue and mix . together lightly- Have the cold custard is the bottom of a glass dish and heap the apple "snow" on top of it. As the apple darkens by ex- posure to the air, this dish should stand as'short a time as possible between making' and serving. - Apple Shortcake.—]fake a good' short, biscuit batter and roll it into a sheet about half an inch thick. Cover with half ° of it the bottom of a biscuit -tin, ittin, spread with a thick layer . of apples which have been peeled, cored, and sliced, sprinkle with sugar' and a little powdered DPESS.IN OLDBN TIMES. Significance of the Color of Robe Worn by'the Bride. Until, the eighteenth century,. from earliest Saxon times, the bride of the poorer folk came to the wed- ding wearing a. plain white 'robe. This was a warning to " the public, that since she brought nothing' to the marriage, her husband was not responsible for her debts, At .the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury brides began'to introduce touches' of color intro their cos- t -tunes. Blue was for constancy and green for youth, Yellow was r.ever worn, as it stood for jealousy, while golden also was shunned, as it meant avarice. Although the, ancient Romain and Hebrew brides • wore yellow veils and the earl Christians df South- ern. Europe enveloped both mean and wife in one large cloth, it was not until Shakespeare's time that veils for bride -s appeared in England. Prior -to that time the custom had been kr the bride to go to -her wed- ding with cher hair hanging loose as a sign of freedoms. Immediately, however, upon entering her new borne she bound up her, hair, . This was a sign of submission. 01. Permanent. Maud—Are you engaged to 'Jack for good? Ethel --It looks that way. 1• don't think he'll ever be in a posi- 4aze. ` I`hose least injured• Brawled dsnly they .were all brought! to their lay in wait for. Viiia. When he left tson to marry rue, cinnamon. Lay the -rest of the sit act of paste . over this: and bake in ;?1 steady oven for half an hour, Servs out into squares, with a hard Na�i�ceF This dish may be made with evaporated peaches or apricots or with She same fruits eanneel. 1 reit holy-t'4iy.--Make a geed biscuit dough, rel it out into a, sheet about half an inch thick' and spread• it with fresh or •canned fruit, or evaporateed fruit twhicb +, has been soaked into plumpness and favor. Use your discretion about the amount of sugar you ` sprinkle over the fruit --the ripe, tart varieties, such. as oranges or apples, will require more than that whish is canned. Dredge with flour and roll the dough. up with the fruit inside, When you have made -it into a loose roll pinch the edges . together, wrap in a piece' of cheesecloth, and lay. in a steamer. Cook one hour and serve with'hard or soft sauce. Peach Batter Pudding.—Butter the inside of 'a deep bake dial „and lay in it •as many; canned or evap- orated and soaked peaches as' it. will : hold comfortably. Sprinkle sugar over these, unless they have been well sweetened in canning.. Make a batter of a quart of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter, melt-,. ed, four eggs, beaten light, and three cups of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add a saltspoonful of salt. Pour this batter over the fruit, cover, bake in a steady oven for thirty mimes, uncover and brown. This' may be eaten with either hard or liquid sauce. This pudding is very good` made with fresh or canned apples. If the former, they must be pealed and cored and a few whole clovbs distributed among them. Points on Light. A piece of camphor placed in the well of an oil lamp ensures a more brilliant light. New chimney glasses should be placed in cold soap -suds, and boiled ' slowly. This prevents them crack- ing. -The .char an wicks should, be rubbed off -with soft tissue paper, the wick being turned down until an eighth of an inch only is above the burner. , Scissors should never be used, once a wick has been even- ly trimmed. Lamps should not be continually refilled with the remains of previ- ous fillings left in. Pour that out, and keep for other purposes. Whatever receptacle paraffin is stirred in should be .absolutely air- tight. Paraffin absorbs and evap- orates, and - both processes lessen its power. A small piece` of white wood, about the size of a quarter, with a little arm left, if placed in the •oil well, will rise -when the oil is poured in, and can easily be ob- served as it swirls round. This prevents the danger of over -filling a lamp. 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