. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mber, 1905. In bulletin No. 9, record No. 33, whichrefers to a rear end collision, in which22 employees of a circus train werekilled, the report reads in part as fol-lows : The engineer failed to have histrain charged with air, and while stilla mile off he failed to see a fusee sig-nal which had been displayed on thetrack to stop him, and did not shut offsteam until warned by the fireman whohad seen the fusee. As the hour wasabout 3 oclock in the morning, and asthe engineman had not been slee
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mber, 1905. In bulletin No. 9, record No. 33, whichrefers to a rear end collision, in which22 employees of a circus train werekilled, the report reads in part as fol-lows : The engineer failed to have histrain charged with air, and while stilla mile off he failed to see a fusee sig-nal which had been displayed on thetrack to stop him, and did not shut offsteam until warned by the fireman whohad seen the fusee. As the hour wasabout 3 oclock in the morning, and asthe engineman had not been sleeping nature required of him, they might havebeen able to have traced up his doingsduring the time allotted him for this engineer was on the showgrounds that preceding day and mayhave been seen by some of the officersof that company; and if such might havebeen the case, why would it not havebeen clearly the duty of the official see-ing him to demand a reason for his notbeing where he could be getting enoughsleep to put him at his best before at-tempting to follow red lights the greater. «•• — Ht EIGHr-WHEEL CONNECTED FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE AUSTRIAN SOUTHERN RAII,WAY. during the time allowed him for rest inthe preceding day, there is strong groundfor the inference that he was asleep athis post, etc. In bulletin No. 10, record No. 27, an-other rear end collision, which cost aloss of 32 lives, the company repo-tsthe leading train, which was an accom-modation, standing at a station on thetime of an express train following, andthat brakeman assisted passengers fromtrain before going back to flag, that heonly got about 200 ft. back before theexpress was upon him. It is claimed bythe officials that the tail lights on stand-ing train could have been plainly seen2,800 ft. in the rear, and the brakemansaid no answer by whistle was given tohis flag signal. The deduction to bederived from a report such as the lastleads one to believe that there was agross neglect of
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