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Having his shackles stricken off, the Norwegian proceeded "with due care," which is to say that he sent the eight-wheeler darting down the line toward Lesterville at the rate of a mile a minute. The mystery of the delay was solved at a point half-way between the two stations. A broken flange had derailed three cars of the freight, and the block was impassable.
'Had the train come in collision with the carriage which you assert was on the down line 'The troops from Kofn and the railway people at Alfau can prove that. 'The mail might have been derailed, with no one can tell what loss of life. 'Count Simon holds life cheap, said Rallywood. 'No life that stands in his way can be safe. Not even the life of Mademoiselle Selpdorf!
That night it was impressed on me more than ever. A tyro or even a nervous 'season' might have been excused for expecting at every moment we were going to be derailed. It was hard to believe that the carriage had any springs, it rocked and swung, and jogged and jolted. Of smooth travelling had we none. Talking was out of the question; and for that, I, personally, was grateful.
It was a lonely journey, and you were much in my mind. My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. Guerillas were roving about, tearing up ties and destroying bridges.
McCloskey went on, industriously drawing lines in the sand, and Lidgerwood sat on a cross-tie end and conned his lesson. Below the siding the big crane was heaving the derailed cars into line with methodical precision, but now it was Gridley's shop foreman who was giving the orders.
On July 31st, however, the same thing occurred with more murderous effect, the train running at full speed off the metals. Thirteen of the Shropshires were killed and thirty-seven injured in this deplorable affair, which cost us more than many an important engagement. On August 2nd a train coming up from Bloemfontein was derailed by Sarel Theron and his gang some miles south of Kroonstad.
An overloaded train from the Thirtieth Street Dépôt there, through a broken switch, came into collision with another overloaded train from the Grand Central Dépôt. The slaughter was horrible. Twelve cars were derailed, and more than a hundred and twenty people, mostly women and children, killed.
Trains were derailed and looted, usually with sharp fighting. By mid-July, Mosby had been promoted to lieutenant colonel and had a total strength of around 300 men, divided into five companies. His younger brother, William Mosby, had joined him and was acting as his adjutant. He now had four guns, all twelve-pounders two howitzers, the Napoleon and a new rifle, presented to him by Jubal Early.
There was a warning whistle, a straining of heavy chains, creakings and groanings from the derailed engine as if it objected to being pulled and hauled about, then the ponderous driving wheels began to turn slowly. "Stand clear, everybody!" cried the foreman. At that moment Bob came running up, using the back of his hand as a napkin for his lips. "There she goes!" was the loud cry.
The growth of large mercantile classes, intoxicated with wealth and pursuing their own interests apart from, and indeed largely in opposition to, those of the mass-peoples, derailed the forward movement, and led in some of the ways which I have indicated above to more of conflict between the nations and less of peace.
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