However we soon had everybody out and the injured laid on blankets.

Meantime a relief train had arrived with the doctor, etc.

He examined us all, asked me if I was all right, to which I replied that I was, as I really felt so at the time.

But in half an hour I was myself lying on a stretcher and unable to move, with a sprained back and bruised side, etc., and a claim for damages against the railway company.
Another time, when riding in the caboose (the rear car) of a long freight train, with the conductor and brakeman, the train in going down a grade broke in three.

The engine and a few cars went right on and left us; the centre part rushed down the hill, our section followed and crashed into it, and some seven or eight cars were completely telescoped.