The Jaguar
Special
Br AVL ft. BULLA m.
r i railroad of Bpaniah Hon
i"" ... Holti-upa, collisions and run-
wty trains art of frtqucnt occur
rence on IU 50 mile of length, but tta
most extraordinary Incident waa that
In which George Power took part.
It was in the "dry saaaon," when the
banana plants were weighted with
their bunches of green fruit, ready for
cutting.
"One day" ai Powera tells the story
"the fruit steamer Breakwater an
chored unexpectedly in the offing of
our Caribbean sea harbor of Porto
Cortex. Soon, at her agent's orders,
there was hoisted at her masthead the
signal indicating 'Fruit, ready for a
quick cargo.' And when the ship had
reached the dock a fruit train was be
ing made up.
"Then we learned that the Break
water was expected to sail for New
Orleans with a cargo of bananas early
the next morning. Extraordinary ef
forts must be mad to load her with
suitable shipment in less than a
iays-tfm. To hurry waa decidedly
ntropical, but the bonus given by the
railroad officials was as oil to lubricate
the machinery of the transportation
department;' and I waa banded these
orders:
Enflneer Powers will take snafus No. U,
with IS platform can. anil proceed with
beat spaed to La Plmlanta; toad canto of
bananas: return to San Pedro: load fruit
there. Report at this office after the run,
ar rt not later loan ten p. m. to-dar.
(Slsned) COLVILLE (Supt of Trans.).
"Such an order meant 'hurry.' My
fireman oiled 13, the only locomotive
available, and the yardmen made up
the train. By noon we were started.
There was work enough ahead to keep
us all out of mischief for the next ten
hours. To cover a round trip of 100
miles, load IS cars with bananss and
pull them into Porto Cortes within
ten hours would be the record for
speed upon the Honduras railroad.
"So old. 13, with throttle wide open,
was soon puffing up the rough road
bed to La Pimienta at an unaccus
tomed pace. The telegraph line was
equally busy, and when we ran past
San Pedro the ox-cars were already
unloading their nine and ten-hand
bunches alongside the track in readi
nets for our return. Between four and
five o'clock we whistled for La Pimi
enta, the terminus.
"There the station agent had a gang
' of 'loaders ready, and before the
train had quite stopped the green
buncheswere being passed to the load-
era in the cars. In an incredibly short
space of time the bananas rose, tier
"TJpontier, to a heavy load; and all the
time axy fireman fed the sticks nf soft
pin to our roaring fire box, for we
should need a good head of steam to
get back to San Pedro in season. The
agent sarcastically asked me: 'Is the
engine good for the heavy pull witli
r out a breakdown?' and I replied:
"Number 13 is about to surprise every
body by a record trip.' And so we did,
both because of and in spite of an un
precedented adventure.
"At six o'clock we had loaded all the
fruit in sight, and whistling for 'open
brakes,' we started for San Pedro.
The down grade helped us materially.
In less than sn hour we had covered
the distance and were taking the fruit
aboard from our last stop.
"Delay began here. There were few
men to load the fruit, and the handling
of it was slow; every bunch was thorough-
inspected by the loaders lest
they should grasp tarantulascrawling
among the bananas. But at eight
o'clock the train was loaded, the
pitrhpine headlight was lighted, the
throttle opened and the whistle
shrieked its farewell to San Pedrc.
"Two hours only were left in which
to make the run in schedule time over
35 mile3 of rolling country and with a
weight of 18 heavilynaded cars. The
'passenger,' with her light freight,
was allowed four hours for the same
run. The darkness was intense, and
the vibration of the train soon became
to great that the headlight was shak
en into a mere sputtering, and ata
lurch went out. The front of the en
gine became the limit of my vision.
"The- whiter mile markers were
passed so quickly that my fireman
lost his count, and we could not tell
where we were. But No. 13 was doing
her best. Not a valve had blown out,
nor a rod broken. Our clattering over
the track was varied only by the
frantic squeslings of a fine, fat pig,
cent by the agent at La Pimienta to the
captain of tie Breakwater as a deli
cacy for hia table. Piggy continually
squealed from its berth In an open
fruit, car.
"In one place a large limb extended
from a tree out over the track, Just
high enough to clear the stacks of
the passing engines. The pig seemed
to stream more loudly than before and
we hear,) a new sound.
"'What was thatr asked my
startled fireman. 'Did you hear that
crash?
"'Oh, never mind I Give me mora
steam,' I replied, for I knew we must
be nearlng a steep grade. I blew the
signals to release the brakes, but
without avail.
"In a minute we struck the hill. It
was hard one to climb, and the en
gine puffed so loudly that I did not no
tic the cessation of the pig's squeals.
Slowly but surely we w ere coming to
standstill. The brakes still seemed
et. I again blew the signal for their
relesse, but the train came suddenly
to an irresolute stop, although making
herculean effort to keep going.
The incline had but begun. To
tart tie train was to possible, j
"Lighted a pin toroh, swung from
thacab to ascertain the situation, and
had pasted several ears when the most
ttrribla yell cbod through th for
est. The men from th rear of the
train were shouting at me. It waa im
possible to distinguish what they wer
saying, because of th yells which
were rising apparently between me and
them. Thee did not alarm me much
'or W trar twned wH4
cat, reckiees, but not dangtrOut,
jk. q I walked toward
in rr or tn train. '7?jtj'
"Approaching the trainmen, I
heard them ehoutt 'Look out for the
jaguar, Poweral'
"Now, no wild creature is more dan
gerous by night to man than a jaguar.
I halted and stared. I could now see
the glaring eyes of th fierce brute as
ha pawed th lifeless pig. Those eyes
followed me with such hostile Intent
that I haatened back to th cab for
the fireman and my Winchester.
"Of course, one of ue had to stay
with the engin, so I left my fireman
In charge and returned alone, with
torch in hand and rifle ready. Th
trainmen earn . toward m from
around th rear of the train. They
told me that the jaguar must have
been crouching on th overspreading
limb, and having heard the squeals of
the pig, must have leaped recklessly
Into the passing train for his prey.
The trainmen bad discovered him
when they started to answer my sig
nal of 'brake off.' The brute held
thm at bay. Thy were in the rear
car, the jaguar was in th next one,
and they could not pass over the train
to release the brakes. The 18 loaded
cars, most ot them having tightened
brakes bod stopped No. 11 on th in
cline. --.-v-
"I trust either give op hope of get
ting to th port in time for loading
the Breakwater, or else must kill ot
drive away th jaguar. The fire of his
eyes wis intensified by the flickering
light of th torch. It was not a pleas
ant grimace when th brute suggest
ively wiped hi lips and tongue with
those huge paws.
"The engine gave a sudden lurch.
My fireman must have been meddling.
It threw the animal from his balance.
His tail lashed. Handing the torch to
a man, I raised my Winchester. The
beast glared ferociously, and meas
ured with his eye the distance to the
ground. Some of the wen ran. As
the animal seemed about to jump.
I took hasty aim and pulled the trig
ger. Apparently the jaguar was un
harmed, but be had changed his opin
ion about the jump, and caln-ly In -.ted
along the tops of the bananas toward
the Jigine. I aimed at him npnin and
pulled the trigger. Then 1 renum
bered that the only cartridge in the
Winchester was the one 1 had fired
"I shouted to the fireman, but l.efnre
I could make him understand the cow
ardly fellow jumped from the call and
scampered into the forest. Luckily,
there waa no other jaguar awaiting
him.
"I went toward th cab. expecting
to find the jaguar in possession, and
determined to club him out with the
butt of my gun; but he was not in the
cab. I blew 'brakes off.' and casually
looked armind. pn the floor of the
tender, among the wood and cak nf
water, stretched nut at full lerprl- an"
apparenlly crouching for a spring. I
saw the jaguar. I jumped from the
engine. The thought of the flren-nn's
cowardice did not amuse me. A fast,
as possible I ran toward the rear of
the train.
'Ten o'clock was approaching. The
ship could not receive her fruit unless
we started immediately. In my haste
I had left the rifle In the cab; now t
took a crowbar which one of the
hrakemen banded me. .But the plan
from which I hoped most was his sug
gestion that I should climb upon
the engine from the front of the
cab, and then reach in tn open the
steam valve on the chance that the
escape of the hissing steam would
frighten the brute to th point of
leaping from the train.
"I opened th valve the Jaguar
never moved.
"I then reached a heavy Iron wrench
and threw it at the beast with nil mv
strength. It struck him upon the head,
but he did not stir. I was startled
Climbing to the fancied security of the
top of the cab, I poked him with a
long-handled rod; but I could see no
sign of life.
"After a close watch, T descended
to the floor of the cab and opened the
furnace door to have more light. The
jaguar was dead. There was a hole
through his head caused by the lucky
shot from my Winchester. He had
walked to the tender In a daze and
died there.
"I blew the whlstl vigorously. It
was a welcome sound to the trainmen.
The brakes were speedily released.
The fireman came scrambling back;
I opened the throttle, and slowly the
train went up th inclin toward Porto
Cortex.
'At a little after ten o'clock that
night the whistling of No. 13, approach
ing wttn Her load of bananas, sum
moned the crew of the Breakwater.
whose; captain congratulated the of-
ficiala of theHondnras railroad on the
remarkable expedition of their fruit
service. But when he saw the nine
feet of Jaguar stretched out in my
tender and heard the story of the
difficulties of the run, he remarked
that the railroad officials should pass
a vote of thanks to me upon th suc
cess of the record trip of th road."
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