- The station agent is a girl about nineteen years of age. Joe Allen and Albert Hill, two freight men, are particularly smitten with her charms. She smiles at the one and bows to the other with equal womanly grace. Joe Allen is far in the lead as regards her affections. This fact is also revealed to Albert Hill. He is in a particularly dangerous frame of mind when, while setting the brakes of the box cars while going down a steep grade, he meets Joe on top of the train. The little station agent immediately becomes the subject of a conversation which waxes into a bitter argument, hot words pass and a blow is struck. The cars go dashing on, the two men reeling and swaying in a terrific struggle. A blow with a lantern knocks the favored one, Joe, unconscious. Albert thinks he has killed him and, realizing the punishment that will follow if he is found out he determines to destroy the evidence of the crime by cutting the cars loose and letting them run wild, that they may be dashed to pieces and Joe with them. This will enable him to hide his guilt. The cars are cut loose and go tearing down the mountain grade, but Joe soon awakes to consciousness to find himself on a mad runaway freight. He strains every nerve and cord in his body tugging at the brakes, but to no avail. A glimmer of hope arrives as he dashes by a way-station. The station master hears his cry, and rushing into his office sends a wire to the little station agent. A moment and the news stuns her, but it means Joe's life. It means more than that; it means the safety of the Overland Limited! Ten minutes have hardly passed before we see the track superintendent, the little station agent and an engineer dashing out of the round house on a high-speed emergency track automobile and away to head off the oncoming freight. Now we are shown the train dashing around dangerous curves and now the track automobile running for life, love and humanity's sake. At last the siding switch is reached, a moment only and the runaway freight is sidetracked and safe. In the next instant the Overland Limited comes tearing down the track and off in the distance. No one ever knew who had saved their lives, or how near to death they nearly were. Joe knew to whom he owed his life, however, and the next day when Albert Hill was arrested the little station agent slipped her hand into Joe's; and somehow we are made to feel that it is just these little tragic moments of life that bring two souls together.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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