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Title: Danger Signals
Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery,
Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train
Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

Author: John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

Release Date: August 8, 2006 [EBook #19007]

Language: English

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DANGER SIGNALS

Remarkable, Exciting And Unique Examples Of The Bravery,
Daring And Stoicism In The Midst Of Danger Of
TRAIN DISPATCHERS AND RAILROAD ENGINEERS

By

JOHN A. HILL
and
JASPER EWING BRADY

ABSORBING STORIES OF MEN WITH NERVES OF STEEL,
INDOMITABLE COURAGE AND WONDERFUL ENDURANCE

Fully Illustrated

CHICAGO
JAMIESON-HIGGINS CO.
1902

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Copyright 1898, 1899
By S. S. McClure Co.

Copyright 1899
By Doubleday & McClure Co.

Copyright 1900
By Jamieson-Higgins Co.

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CONTENTS

PART I. PAGE

Jim Wainright's Kid 7

An Engineer's Christmas Story 35

The Clean Man and the Dirty Angels 57

A Peg-legged Romance 75

My Lady of the Eyes 97

Some Freaks of Fate 151

Mormon Joe, the Robber 191

A Midsummer Night's Trip 227

The Polar Zone 253

PART II.

CHAPTER

I. Learning the Business--My First Office 1

II. An E