pursue his journey homeward in peace.
Towards two o'clock in the afternoon, while it gayboys com was snowing hard, long
whistles were heard approaching from the east. A great shadow, preceded by
a
gayboys com wild light, slowly advanced, appearing still larger through the mist,
which gave it gayboys com a gayboys com fantastic aspect. No train was expected from the
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east, neither had there been time for the succour asked for by gayboys com telegraph to
arrive; the train from Omaha to San Francisco was not due till the next
day. The mystery was soon explained.
The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles,
was that which, having been detached from the train, gayboys com had gayboys com continued its
gayboys com route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer
and stoker. It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low gayboys com for want
of fuel,
the steam had gayboys com slackened; and it had finally stopped gayboys com an hour after,
gayboys com some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney. Neither the gayboys com engineer nor the stoker
was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had
come to
themselves. gayboys com the train had then stopped. The engineer, when he found himself
in the desert, and the locomotive without cars,
understood what had
happened. He gayboys com could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from
the train; but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress.
He did not hesitate