. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . The General Despatcher. A CURIOUS ACCIDENT. 167 and to No. 2 at J : Nos. i and 2 will meet at I. This mes-sage was correctly received at J and delivered to No. 2. But at H the operator had just sold a passenger a ticket to K, and,. Entrance Gates at a Large Station. getting this name in his head, he wrote out the message: Nos. iand 2 will meet at K. But the mistake was not yet past cor-rection. The operator had to repeat the message back to the de-spatcher, that the latter might be sure it was correctly underst
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . The General Despatcher. A CURIOUS ACCIDENT. 167 and to No. 2 at J : Nos. i and 2 will meet at I. This mes-sage was correctly received at J and delivered to No. 2. But at H the operator had just sold a passenger a ticket to K, and,. Entrance Gates at a Large Station. getting this name in his head, he wrote out the message: Nos. iand 2 will meet at K. But the mistake was not yet past cor-rection. The operator had to repeat the message back to the de-spatcher, that the latter might be sure it was correctly repeated it as he had written it— K. But the despatcherwas also heterophemous. He saw K,but he thought I,and replied to the operator that the message was O. K. So it was delivered to No. i, and that train left H at fullspeed, expecting to run thirty-five miles to K before meetingNo. 2. There was no telegraph office at I, and there were nopassengers to get off or on, and it passed there without stopping,and three miles below ran into No. 2 on a curve. By one of those strange impulses which seem to come fromsome unconscious cerebration, the train-despatcher meanwhile hada feeling that something was wrong, and looked again at the mes-saofe received from H and discovered his mistake. But thetrains wer
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