Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 586
of me. It wasdesperate work, but hegradually allowed myengine to catch up withhis, received the shockas easily as he could,then put on his brakesand brought both undercontrol. That was before thedays of air-brakes. Runaways do notoccur now; but when they did, that is howthey were caught—when they… … I WAS HELPLESS AND ALONE IN A RUNAWAY ENGINE road, and that to do this, another one, withoutan engineer, had been sent against mine, andthat the two would meet and be thrown overthe cliff at a point that was still out of sight. What could I do? I tried to think. OnceI decided to make a wild leap…
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