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Updated: June 3, 2025
All along the track, from outside of Benton to the top of a long, slow rise of desert were indications of the fact that Indians had torn up the track or attempted to derail trains. The signs of Sioux had become such an every-day matter in the lives of the laborers that they were indifferent and careless.
An associate of this man was discovered to have been a detective who had later joined the Western Federation of Miners. He testified that he had kept the detective agencies informed as to the progress of the plot to derail the train.
"They will never be able to stop the car," she moans. Then with a final effort she tugs at a boulder larger than any of the others. She has it on the rail when the whistling of the engine startles her. The engineer has seen the lower pyramid of rocks on the track and has whistled "down brakes." The train is stopping; it will be saved, for one of the two obstructions will derail the motor-car.
Sister Martha is acting her role of heroine at a point a mile and a half further up the grade. She has posted herself where she can observe the station and the summit of the grade. At the side of the track she collects a dozen boulders, the heaviest she can move. These she determines to put on the track to derail the car which the miners are to send down the grade to wreck the train.
Adams, who was to the left of the charging beast, raised the rifle and looked down the sights. He knew that if he missed, the brute would charge the flash and be on him perhaps before he could give it the second barrel. It was exactly like standing before an advancing express engine. An engine, moreover, that had the power of leaving the metals to chase you should you not derail it.
"Do you have to ask me twice to help you?" cries the woman. "I would lie down on the track and let the cars run over me if it would protect Mr. Trueman." Martha and her ally start for the long grade. On the way they discuss the manner in which they may derail the car with the nitro-glycerine. "We will put rocks on the track," suggests Sister Martha.
The car could really jump the track, of course; a pebble on the track, placed there by either accident or malice, at a sharp curve where one might strike it before the eye could discover it, could derail the car and fling it down into India; and the fact that the lieutenant-governor had escaped was no proof that I would have the same luck.
For what deference can be given to a name, though not in itself a thing of dishonor, which represents the failure to derail the evitable fate which wrecks the race of man again and again.
Curse the luck!" vociferated the cow-Puncher. But the sheriff was already out of the saddle and into the telegraph office. "There's a derailing switch between here and Pixley, isn't there?" he cried. "Yes." "Wire ahead to open it. We'll derail him there. Come on;" he turned to Delaney and the others. They sprang into the cab of the locomotive that was attached to the freight train.
Heavy volleys were being fired. The attack of the savages seemed to be concentrating forward, evidently to derail the engine or kill the engineer. Casey pulled Neale down. "Risky fer yez," he said. "Use a port-hole an' foight." "My shells are gone," replied Neale. He lay well down in the car then, and listened to the uproar, and watched the Irish trio.
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