A Lost Locomotive by Boston Transcript

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 17, 1884

A Lost Locomotive.

By Boston Transcript

A LOCOMOTIVE ran through a broken bridge on the Kansas Pacific Railway, across Kiowa Creek, several years ago, sinking into the mud at the bottom, and has never since been heard from, though repeated efforts have been made by digging and boring to recover so valuable a piece of property. The bottom is quicksand, but even quicksands have limits, and it seems very singular that the longest boring-rod has failed to find any trace of the sunken engine.

By-and-by the silent mysterious operation may drain the quicksand and harden it into rock, and then, long after the Kansas Pacific Road has been forgotten, and the Kiowa Creek has vanished from the map, some future scientist will discover a curious piece of mechanism, undoubtedly the work of human hands, lying under so many hundred feet of sandstone, and will use the fact as a basis for calculating how many millions of years old the human race must be.—Boston Transcript.