A Runaway Train

The most hair-raisin episode that ever liappened to a New Mexico mouoUln rail way train teil to the lot of Conductor lil(:ssiiigiiiim on Thuraday afternoon at :f i'clock, on the west slopeof Glorietta suminit. The train oompriaed thirty Loaded "liil'trew'olrihë'water l„ !(.!, bilt found that it was broke and woukl not wort The train galned niomentuin to such a frightt'ul extent that tljtswitch cables and hooks lying on the base in front were liurled from their places into tlir air, bi-eakinL Olie of the locomnlive's juard-rails. Brown called for brakes, but the trainmen had already set every one, and realiz'd that the train was beyond their control. Seciug that nothing could be done t#8lop the niad coursc the train wal going, Browtl liimped from the cab while going !it the rata of sixty miles an liour, and Uuulcd seventy-two feet distant, actual ineasiireinciit. l!lcs-iiii;hain, who was on tl. boose with PaWBM Cliarley and wile as liters, fearlng that the train was {oing U) descruction, i-ut his way-iai looM md eheoked il with the brakes, whlle th train continued it-s velix;ity down thr log fírade. 'l'hc tireinan stood at hls pust like a hero, and while the eneine wa.s plonglBg down the rtíjílit at a giddy spjcd, he crawled ooi on the foot-boud and poked tand throart the sand -liux, tliiukin;; that It aügbi EtM wliceU in gotting ft grip npon the ralla. Al the train apad aronml Material curve, whirh i. sliort and tee[), the Teloclty n so peil that the looomotlTe ran on one rail, and ovcrbalanccil so rreatly that it ame wlthln an ace of Iosíhk ' qulllbrtuiu. Toe brakeman on deck wen obligud tu ür flat and ding to the rannlng-boardj lor safcty. For six miles thoM liailly treightened men stiick tO the ship and noed the lior rorsofdeath. BeloW OoDOMCitú is ft natural basin, with tlircc miles ut level track, and it WHSon thi trctcli that Uit; nmauay train s mattered and stopped. Bome of car we ladi-n uith iron for the front, but they wen unloaded before the train itopped, the niHteiial Iwing liurled in all lirectlofU. .'nt liow the train held to the raiteai well asit did isa inysti-ry wliicli the [iliilosopliris must solve - we can't.