zement, and dumbfounded at the strange,
startling, and daring act.

This unheard-of act was, doubtless, undertaken at that place
and time upon the presumption that pursuit could not be made
by an engine short of Kingston, some thirty miles above, or
from this place; and that by cutting down the telegraph
wires as they proceeded, the adventurers could calculate on
at least three or four hours' start of any pursuit it was
reasonable to expect. This was a legitimate conclusion, and
but for the will, energy, and quick good judgment of Mr.
Fuller, and Mr. Cain, and Mr. Anthony Murphy, the
intelligent and practical foreman of the wood department of
the State Road shop, who accidentally went on the train from
this place that morning, their calculations would have
worked out as originally contemplated, and the results would
have been obtained long ere this reaches the eye of our
readers--the most terrible to us of any that we can conceive
as possible, and unequaled by any attempted or conceived
since this war commenced.

Now for the chase!

These three determined men, without a moment's delay, put
out after the flying train--_on foot_, amidst shouts of
laughter by the crowd, who, though lost in amazement at the
unexpected and daring act, could not repress their
risibility at seeing three men start after a train on foot,
which they had just witnessed depart at lightning speed.
They put on all their speed, and ran along the track for
three miles, when they came across some track-raisers, who
had a small truck-car, which is shoved along by men so
employed on railroads, on which to carry their tools. This
truck and men were at once "impressed." They took it by
turns of two at a time to run behind this truck, and push it
along all up grades and level portions of the road, and let
it drive at will on all the down grades. A little way
further up the fugitive adventurers had stopped, cut the
telegraph wires, and torn up the track. Here the pursuers
were thrown off pell mell, truck and men, upon the side of
the road. Fortunately "nobody was hurt on our side." The
truck was soon placed on the road again; enough hands were
left to repair the track, and with all the power of
determined will and muscle, they pushed on to Etowah
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