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" Each of the outside passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection against the smoke and fire. They were found to be but a momentary protection, for I think in the first mile the last one went overboard, all having their covers burnt off from... "
Railroads, Their Origin and Problems - Page 49
by Charles Francis Adams - 1886 - 230 pages
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St. Nicholas, Volume 33

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...spark-catcher to the chimney, or smoke-stack, a volume of black smoke strongly impregnated with sparks, coals, and cinders came pouring back the whole length of...his neighbor to put out the fire. They presented a motley appearance on arriving at the first station." I should think so ! No wonder that one old gentleman...
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Railroads in Alaska: Hearings Before the Committee on the Territories of the ...

United States Congress House Committe, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories - Crafts & Hobbies - 1880 - 248 pages
...length of the train. Each of the J outside passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protec) tion against the smoke and fire. They were found to be...general melee took place among the deck-passengers, j each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire. They presented ja very motley appearance on arriving...
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Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending Over More Than Fifty Years

Richard Pike - Railroads - 1884 - 318 pages
...dry pitch-pine for fuel, and, there being no smoke or spark-catcher to the chimney or smoke, stack, a volume of black smoke, strongly impregnated with...their covers burnt off from the frames, when a general me!6e took place among the deck passengers, each whipping his neighbour to put out the fire. They presented...
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Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Or, Stories of the Locomotive in ...

William Sloane Kennedy - Railroads - 1884 - 312 pages
...to the chimney, or smoke-stack, a volume of black smoke, strongly impregnated with sparks,* coals, and cinders, came pouring back the whole length of...their covers burnt off from the frames, when a general incite took place among the deck-passengers, each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire. They presented...
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Railway adventures and anecdotes, ed. by R. Pike

Richard Pike - 1884 - 304 pages
...volume of black smoke, strongly impregnated with sparks, coal, and cinders, came pouring back the whele length of the train. Each of the outside passengers...their covers burnt off from the frames, when a general mc!6e took place among the deck passengers, each whipping his neighbour to put out the fire. They presented...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 8

United States - 1888 - 722 pages
...spark-catcher to the chimney, or smokestack, a volume of black smoke, strongly impregnated with sparks, coals and cinders, came pouring back the whole length of...frames, when a general melee took place among the deck passengers, each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire. They presented a very motley appearance...
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The Great American Book of Biography, Illustrious Americans: Their Lives and ...

United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...protection against the smoke and fire. The umbrellas were found to be but a momentary protection, and in the first mile the last one went overboard, all having their covers burned off from the frames. At the first station a plan was hit upon to stop the jerking. A piece of...
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Old Bergen: History and Reminiscences with Maps and Illustrations

Daniel Van Winkle - Bergen (N.J.) - 1902 - 344 pages
...with sparks, coals and cinders, came pouring back the whole length of the train. Each of the tossed passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection...frames ; when a general melee took place among the deck passengers, each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire," Chapter XXXIV. TRANSPORTATION. UP...
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Pennsylvania School Journal, Volume 56

Education - 1907 - 656 pages
...impregnated with sparks, coal and cinders, came pouring back the whole length of the train. Each of the passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection...first mile the last one went overboard, all having had their covers burnt off by the flames, when a general melee took place among the passengers, each...
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The Railway Conductor, Volume 26

Railroad conductors - 1909 - 1226 pages
...umbrella raised it as a protection against smoke and fire. They found it but a momentary protection, for in the first mile the last one went overboard, all having their covers burnt off from the frames. A general melee took place among the passengers, each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire that...
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