. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . jumped over on opposite trackwithout looking and in the third assistant sec-tion foreman was standing on eastbound track,directing his men working on the westboundtrack—struck. All such accidents are preventable and we aremaking strong effort to go a full month without afatal injury, We can do it if every employe willtake a personal interest and not hesitate in call-ing attention to bad practices, such as sitting ontrack, stepping off one track on to another with-out looking, etc. 42 HONOR ROLL ANOTHER RAILROAD HERO EVERY newspaper in Chicago cameout o
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . jumped over on opposite trackwithout looking and in the third assistant sec-tion foreman was standing on eastbound track,directing his men working on the westboundtrack—struck. All such accidents are preventable and we aremaking strong effort to go a full month without afatal injury, We can do it if every employe willtake a personal interest and not hesitate in call-ing attention to bad practices, such as sitting ontrack, stepping off one track on to another with-out looking, etc. 42 HONOR ROLL ANOTHER RAILROAD HERO EVERY newspaper in Chicago cameout on the morning of June 20 withan extra edition telling of the veryunfortunate accident that occurred in theChicago River under our bridge immedi-ately before we enter the Grand CentralPassenger Station at Chicago. Four lives were lost—Mr. Herbert, astreet car conductor, and his wife, , a police officer, and GeorgeW. Brew, one of our switchmen at Em-pire Slip. A nine-year-old girl and afour-year-old boy were saved, the little. GEORGE W B HEW girl at the cost of its fathers life, and theboy by a human chain stretched fromthe bank of the river. Mr. Herbert hadjust purchased a launch and was givinghis wife and little girl and a neighborsboy a little outing. Just before thelaunch reached the railroad bridge,James Barnidge, bridge tender, who alsodeserves great credit for his presence ofmind, noticed something was wrong, asthe boat was apparently unmanageablein the swift current. He also knew theboat coidd net safely pass under thebridge. As a passenger train was on thebridge at the time, it could not be raised, and he realizing there would be a badaccident, he immediately sounded thealarm whistle, which summons every oneto the bridge. When the boat struck thebridge it turned over and the gasolinetank exploding at the same time, knockeda hole in the bottom. George W. Brew, switchman, wasworking with his crew when he heard thealarm whistle sounded. He signalled hisenginee
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