five o'clock
The whole operating department of the road was stirred . What made the affair more dreadful was that it had occurred on the time of Number Six , the east-bound passenger train , held that morning at Sleepy Cat by an engine failure . Glover came to look into the matter . The testimony of all tended to one conclusion -- that the quarry switch had been thrown at some time between four-thirty and five o'clock that morning . Inferences were many : tramps during the early summer had been unusually troublesome and many of them had been rigorously handled by trainmen ; robbery might have been a motive , as the express cars on train Number Six carried heavy specie shipments from the coast . Yet a means so horrible as well as so awkward and ineffective seemed unlike mountain outlaws . Strange men from headquarters were on the ground as soon as they could reach the wreck , men from the special-service department , and a stock inspector who greatly resembled Whispering Smith was on the ground looking into the brands of the wrecked cattle .