ed unprecedented for that road--a new one.

A bad curve was just ahead, but the speed was not slackened. Like a
racing horse on a small track, the engine struck it and leaned toward
the inner circle, but an instant later straightened up and flew on
its way.

Just as the curve was turned, a few hundred paces ahead, stood a small
group of tramps. Seeing the train, they hastily broke and ran for
the timber along the edge of the right-of-way, but not before one of
them hurriedly stooped and placed something on the track, A hundred
eyes were on him, and as many rifles were instantly raised to fire,
but Daly was the first to pull the trigger, and the man fell backward
down the enbankment, bearing with him that which he had endeavored
to place on the rail.

In firing, Daly was compelled to let go his hold, which kept him on
the train, and he lost his balance and fell forward, crushed into an
unrecognizable mass beneath the wheels.

The train was stopped, and a hundred aching hearts, which had melted
in the presence of death, went tenderly to their duty of gathering
up poor Daly's remains.

The tramp had been shot fairly through the head, and he had died
holding in one of his clenched fists a deadly bomb, which, but for
the presence of mind and quickness of action of the despised recruit,
would have sent every soul on the train into eternity.

The next day the _Rocky Mountain Daily Eagle_ contained this Associated
Press report:

"The late Private Daly, of Company E, --th Infantry, who was
crushed beneath the first train out of Patterson, Mont., while
firing at Antonio Bressi, the anarchist, was from New York City,
where he has a mother and younger sisters and brothers dependent
on him for support. His right name was Leonard Dresel, and the name
Daly seems to have been assumed when he entered the Army to conceal
his identity. There was no apparent reason for this, as he has an
excellent reputation for honesty and industry, and he enlisted in the
Regulars because he could obtain no employment elsewhere. He worked
for officers of his regiment in order to make additional money that
his brothers and sisters might remain in school.

"Antonio Bressi, who died from the deadly aim of Daly, was a noted
anarchist leader, prominent in the Coeur d'Alene riots a few years ago,
which were so promptly quelled by the --th Infantry. It is believed
that for this reason he endeavored to blow up the train, for it is
known that he is not