. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in asimilar predicament. New.\rk, O., September 22.—Joseph Work-man, express messenger on No. 2, Baltimore(t Ohio express, yesterday afternoon hadan interesting experience with a large bull,which he will not desire to be repeated soonagain. The animal had been placed in the carat Barnesville, to be taken to Illinois. It wassafely enclosed in a frame work, as was sup-posed, but later developments proved other-wise. As the train was coming dowTi the grade,this side of Barnesville, at the rate of aboutfifty miles an hour, the animal broke out of thecrate
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in asimilar predicament. New.\rk, O., September 22.—Joseph Work-man, express messenger on No. 2, Baltimore(t Ohio express, yesterday afternoon hadan interesting experience with a large bull,which he will not desire to be repeated soonagain. The animal had been placed in the carat Barnesville, to be taken to Illinois. It wassafely enclosed in a frame work, as was sup-posed, but later developments proved other-wise. As the train was coming dowTi the grade,this side of Barnesville, at the rate of aboutfifty miles an hour, the animal broke out of thecrate and for a time made things lively in thecar. Joe desired to capture him, but hardlyknew just how to do so. Finally he grabbedthe beast around the neck with both arms, lock-ing fingers of hands. This only made it morefrantic, and for a time there was a race up anddown the car. Finally th^ animal made a breakfor the open car door. This was too much forJoes nerve. He did not care to accompany it 92 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE. ENGINE No. 1464 WITH ENGINEER HELMS AND FIREMAN YOUNG on its wild leap down an embankment thirty orforty feet, and very sensibly released his hold,and braced against the car to save himself fromgoing out, while the beast went headlong, turn-ing somersault after somersault in the bull was subsequently found to be almostuninjured by the fall, and was caught andbrought in on No. 4 last night. The accompanying photograph is of engineNo. 1464, assigned between Newark and Cincin-nati on trains Nos. 103 and 104. Engineer JamesHelms is shown in the picture with his oil canin his left hand, while fireman O. S. Young isstanding with his hands on his hips. Bothengineer Helms and fireman Young are old em-ployes in passenger service, and their manyfriends will enjoy seeing their photographs inthe Magazine. The Ralston Steel Car Co. is now gettingbusy at this point. They are turning out aboutfifteen new cars daily for our Company, re-pairing about 1
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