■ ■ – 11 GQOlb OLD GHOSTS.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1889, Page 3

■ ■ - 11 GQOlb OLD GHOSTS.

-ft The Ghostly Signal and, the Phantom Ploughman, , : * : Two capital ghost stories reach us from the other side of the Atlantic. '. he first is Canadian, the second conies from Penßylvania. - The Genesis of We Ghost . Last autumn there was an accident on the Cah&da Atlantic Railway* near the station at St. Scholastique* ■ A farmer named Hrunet was j wa'king along tlie track at about •twelve o'clock at night, when the Ottawa express came along, struck and threw his body 100 feet a\yay so horribly mangled it that portions wer** were found in the branches of a clump of trees growing beside the [track There have five different engineers of that train since then, tht. last resigning only a few nays', ago. The reason given for the resignations was that the clump of trees was , haunted and that th-re were strange signals given .there every night, which always stopped the train and then disappeared. The- engineer who resigned last gives the following reasons for giving up* his position. "Why the engineer resigned . It's a ghost .or something 'like it^ and it has been the cause of four other engineers. asking to" be transferred. I first saw the ghost one night two weeks ago: I had left St. Scho'astique, and was whopping her up, because I was a trifle late. I had hardly got her going when I saw what seenied to me a red star .floating in the air, perhaps a mile away, and ahead of me. It grew larger as I got nearer, and suddenly it struck me that -the red star was a red lamp. Yet it was very high in I t"*_e air-*— too high, thought Ttobe a signal. I noticed also that it apparently hovered over , the clump of trees. As Tgot within 200yds of tbe trees the redglo v, e seemed to jump from the. trees right over the track. This all took place in a shorter while than it takes me to tell it- 1 was startled. The light was undoubtedly that of a^ signal lamp, and hung directly in the way of the train. I hadn't time to call the attention of my fireman to it before I was on top of it. Frightened and fearful For continuation of reading matter see ' fourth page.