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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
3
In a stormy night scene, the crew learns of flood danger and a broken Spider bridge report. Tension rises as foreman Hailey curses Omaha and reveals deep personal anger over a wrongful discharge before ordering the engine to move.
In a stormy chase the crew moves a live engine from Wickiup toward Spider water. Bucks warns Phil Hailey while Callahan and Duffy coordinate orders and Evans snatches a track sheet as twenty men scatter to a bridge special.
The engine Hailey powers through the Painted Desert at breakneck speed as crews and spectators react. Callahan implores restraint as the locomotive barrels onward, steam and thunder filling the vast landscape while Peace River hills flash by in the headlights.
A chase into the hills ends in a fatal wreck as engines, tenders, and a caboose collide with the Peace River crossing. Fire and flood sweep the abutment while survivors scramble from debris and wreckers race toward the crash site.
Through drawing room sleeper and free reclining chair car for St Louis depart Denver daily at 7 50 p m on Rock Island No 28 The same train carries through tourist sleeper for St Louis after leaving Limon The line between Kansas City and St Louis is new and well ballasted and smooth The Rock Island is the way East
Three days the Spider raged as divers recovered the engines from ruins at Agnew's site. Callahan and Bucks killed Peeto’s master and sealed his fate, laying him beside his master. The Spider roamed Hailey's caissons while Hailey slept through the assault.
A New York Herald note extols southern style baked ham for Christmas. It should be partly baked with skin, then browned slowly with the fat stock and cloves, leaving spices in the meat for a delicate flavor. no sauce is needed.
A brief dialogue fragment asks if industry is essential to happiness. The exchange notes that “4 little is” essential, highlighting a contrarian view on labor, contentment, and the limits of work in achieving joy. The line hints at a larger moral about balance and fulfillment.
A brief quote notes a man who has never worked would not appreciate the ease of having none to do. The Washington Star reflects on labor and leisure with a wry observation about comfort resulting from inactivity.
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