. The locomotive engineer . rook line, ontlio evening of June8d. In this doss oflocomollves the lire-mun is located backof llie llrc-hox, andthe engineer fireman noticed,when nearly half-way over the division, that the engineer was nol makingeusloinary signals, and was ruiwing at a very highrate of BiwiJ, so he climbed over the fire-box to thecab, and found the engineer dead—his head nearlysevered from his body, Mur[iliy hud been killedhy the Kpout of a water crane—some of these cranesin use on this road not being aulumalie in returningto position. SuppoM that this fust Iruiii should
. The locomotive engineer . rook line, ontlio evening of June8d. In this doss oflocomollves the lire-mun is located backof llie llrc-hox, andthe engineer fireman noticed,when nearly half-way over the division, that the engineer was nol makingeusloinary signals, and was ruiwing at a very highrate of BiwiJ, so he climbed over the fire-box to thecab, and found the engineer dead—his head nearlysevered from his body, Mur[iliy hud been killedhy the Kpout of a water crane—some of these cranesin use on this road not being aulumalie in returningto position. SuppoM that this fust Iruiii should bavc kept onuntil it L-aughi a train ahead, crashed into it andkilled u lot of passengers. The verdict of theeom])uiiy, tbe coroner iind the public would douht-leaa have been- that the engineer was drunk, orasleep at his poKt. The fireman on this engine laid his comradesbody down as best he coultl, and ran the engineover the road, making all the conneelioas and ams-lug no delay, lie was the ri^ht man in the A Little f iivl Test. Early this month Mailer Mechanic Van Uruut,of tbe Ieuiisylvauia & Norlhwiv^iteni Itailniad,conducle^l a ten days experiment wilh three newBaldwin consolidation locomotives, lo H?e whatetiect the Smith exhaust pii>c had on the coalpile. The englnejt are all alike, haul the same trainsover the same track under exactly tbe same condi-tions, except that one has Smiths exhaust pi| grade is IB5 feet per mile for eight miles, allthe rest »5 feel per mile. lOUSTONfi AllllANQESIENT OF LdCOMOTlVE SMOKE-EO; ■■Flat-wheeldid, and finally the company mademembership in the hospital schetne voluntary—ifyou wanted it come and say so. if not. nothingwould betaken from your pay. Flat-wheel didnot lake slock, and had kicked so long that hekept right on kicking, forgetting that he wasntin it. One stormy night tlic switcher ran himdown in the yard, and cut off his wooden leg, andthe boys took him home. On the way he con-ceived a revengeful j
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