When they got back, they could hear the express



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messenger kicking and pounding in the corner of the
car, so the fireman returned to the engine, got the
axe, and chopped him out.
In the meantime, the frightened passengers made
their way back to the next station in the rear, and
reported the accident to the station agent, who
passed the word along to the superintendent that
the engine, baggage, and express cars were buried
in the tunnel. The engineer's wife, who was in
delicate health, was thrown into convulsions on hear-
ing the report, and died before it was known that her
husband had escaped.
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CHAPTER XII •

OVERWORK TRUSTING A CONDUCTOR — FIFTY-TWO

HOURS ON DUTY — THE CALLER — A TRAMP's STORY
— LEARNING A LESSON DEATH OF THE TRAMP

Our lives were not, as you may have been led to
suppose, all made up of accidents, by any means.
