"Chicken-house be jiggered!" exploded the official. "That's thestation!"
"I read of the terrible vengeance inflicted upon one of their members by a band of robbers in Mississippi last week."
"What did they do? Shoot him?"
"No; they tied him upon the railroad tracks."
"Awful! And he was ground to pieces, I suppose?"
"Nothing like it. The poor fellow starved to death waiting for the nexttrain."—W. Dayton Wegefarth.
The reporter who had accompanied the special train to the scene of the wreck, hurried down the embankment and found a man who had one arm in a sling, a bandage over one eye, his front teeth gone, and his nose knocked four points to starboard, sitting on a piece of the locomotive and surveying the horrible ruin all about him.
"Can you give me some particulars of this accident?" asked the reporter, taking out his notebook.