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A HAUNTED LOCOMOTIVE••There sro on nearly every rail, road locomotives that are known as “Jonah*, said lUnry K. Ar-cli*r, who has spent twimty o»r* id the s*rvl«* of the Illinois Central, and ia at present soj turning at the Southern. “Locomotive engine* r« are not. perhaps, mote Unerslift ua than other people, but I have known more than miio to throw up IiIh position rather than take out an engine (hat w.*-regarded a* unlucky. So ne year* ago an engine on hii I I nois tool blew up. Culling the ti euiVi'e head off wiili n a-gupMit of boiler iron. Tuo engine rebuilt ami made as good as new, bur no engineer could bn found to mu li more than one trip. It was soon wiiU|N-red about that It wan haunted; that ihoIn-adless flieti.ao had an u *pleaa mt habit of appear lug on til«i tender with pick and shovel and Insisting on tiling up. On- night an engineer and Ip a flieman deserted the loootno'ive whil-out on a run ami ih- conductor att-m t-d to bring the train In. lie w«s not afiaid of gtioara! not lie! But b* *idetrucked at flic first opp.irtnuit' aad waited until daylight ledore completing the run. Ho tobl m that the ghost «u no joke; that every time the furnace d ***r thrown o|K.n tic* h emit ess apparition entered me cab b^ar g a shadowy scoop of coal. For a month the engine l«y in the simp. Then an engineer, who was compelled to either take it oat or io-»* his position, illoanted it. B foe he bad run a dozen unles it w*n through a culvert, wrecked the train and killed nine people. It was uever rebuilt.”
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Magnolia Gazette
Magnolia, Mississippi, US
Sat, Nov 12, 1892
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