Buffalo Roost

Buffalo Roost: A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. Cheley is about young boys in the YMCA who work to save the lives of those at Buffalo Roost. Excerpt: "Train No. 6 on the D. & P.W., two hours late at Limon, was rushing and jolting along over its rickety roadbed. The rain fell in torrents, the heavy peals of thunder seemed about to tear the car to pieces, the black and threatening clouds blotted out the landscape, and the passengers could hear nothing but the roar of the thunder and the rattle of the train. The brakeman, shaking the water from his hat as he passed through the aisle…"