The grade is hardly preceptible and it is
undoubtedly the intention of trainmen to
maintain high speed here. Anyone fa
miliar willi the rules under which train
men are given orders to ''lookoutfor such
andsuch a train" and are premitted to
use their own , judgement, in guessing
where they will meet that train, can
readily understand how a daring crew
might attempt to teach the siding at the
opposite end of the cut, and meet disas
ter instead. An instance of the danger
of trains meeting in this cut appeared a
few days ago when a. west bound hand
car propelled by sereral men met an east
bound fast freight near the center of the
cut The men on the handcar, barely
hd time to jump, for their lives and
escaped injury from the flying fragments
of thewreoked car, only by running a
head of the point whaie th y knew the
freight would strike the handcar. This
CJt is a marrej in engineing skill, and
cost the road a vast sum of money. It
was built .to keop within the spaciaca
tions so reLigioualy adhered to, in con
strutting the Cut-off requiring an average
grade of less than one per cent through
a country the topography of which is
formed Dy mountain, hill ana plain.
