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U niversity of O regon M onthly 21 “Engine, 907, nine hundred seven, will meet train. No, 55, fifty' 4ye? ,a t tBliss. # \ H BIS 7 -J F . 11-14-07, 12 M.” . -A. half an houj- later, having “got the,board,” No. 907 running light in ch arg e. of engineer Donnelly,)',.slid out of. Glenn’s Ferry, After clearing the switches, Donnelly set the reverse lever up a few .notches, o-pençd the tijtQttle wide and watched his engine go.i(iHe passed a J/^slpw.-boardyop za .reverse curve that said “2 ^ /miles per hour,” a t,a 60 mile pápe, and when he approached the Snake Tryer htidge, across whiçh the speed limit yeas 15 miles per hour, with the mile "posts keeping, tinie with the minute hand of his watch,, he just steadied his engine with a little air, but never shut off the steam. Donnelly didn’t take what he considered unnecessary precautions, when he had no. train fbehind him to be responsible for. Ten min utes more and they were headirig into the passing trâck' at Bliss, ■ where they were to meet the west-bound passenger/No. 5,. and .also the through freight,,Ñ p .,;5,5. . . . " The .passenger was late-and engine No. 907 lay on the side-track fully for5ty minutes, before.a trail of smoke on the horizon announced its, approach. In the,„meantime Donnelly got another 731” order on..No. 55. The freight had,“fallen down” on his schedule and hence thef.meeting pohjt was c h a n g e d .T h e order read as follows: “Train No. 55, fifty-five will wait at Kimaina until 3 :40 P . for light engine N p; 9Q7, nine hundred seven.” ,/; ■ , It, was forty miles tp,Kimaina and the grade at. King Hill*must be climbed, but an engine running light coúld cover the distance in as many minutes, | But Donnélly was in no hurry this time. He had scorched the rails, between, Glenn’s Ferry and Bliss only* to be held up, forty minutes at the,.latter place. He expected the order to be reversed and tó be “laid, out’/ at K ing Hill, the- only telegraph office, between Bliss and Kimaina. So No. 907 rolled lei surely,along while .the engineer anathematized the Ó. S E R. R. officials from the superintendent who had hired him, down to the round-house .fore man who had ordered, the engine into the shops. B u t contrary to his expectations, when D onnelly. signalled, the operator a t K ing Hill, he got the “board.” Domyelly saw he had. tip tim e to lose. H e had orders to clear No,..5 5 -a t Kimaina a t 3 :40 P. M., and failing to do this he would be. forced'to head into, a blind siding..until the- freight went by. B ut engineers w ho-have..“fallen down” , on their, time, try to . g e t as near the meeting point as pos-