about five o'clock in the morning
`` I 'll try to be brief . Last Fall I was travelling on a train out my way , to be exact some eighty miles west of Cincinnati , when we had an accident . A freight train was slow about taking a side track and we came along and banged into it . It was about five o'clock in the morning and most of the passengers were asleep . A wreck 's a nasty thing in any case , but when it happens at night or before it is light enough to see it is worse . The forward cars of our train and the freight caught fire from the engines , and there was a good deal of loose steam around , and things were pretty messy for awhile . There happened to be another doctor on the train and , as soon as we got our bearings , we started a first-aid camp alongside the track .