Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-03-25

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The engineer on the Hudson Rive
railroad told the writer Of a narrow es
cape be experienced only a short tim
ago. After t~wehiy-four hours continuou
service he was ordered out with a''ihrougl
freight" from this city TO Albany. H'
protested against the assignment, as boil
the fireman and himself had already don
double duty, aud were in danger of fall
ing asleep. The foreman Of the yard
however, had no enc else to send. anC
insisted that the engineer should rup thu
the train. So he started. After a ruI
Of two hours he yielded to his %overpower
ing exhaustion and as his fireman hat
done some moments before-fell asleep
He knew no moro until awakened by th'
conductor, who had come forward TO dis
cover what had caused the stoppage OF Tho
train and had found both men curled W
aud asleep on either side of the cab. Tn,
throttle was wide open, ,heTeverse valve
was .'notched down" well forward, bul
the steam guage registered only so pounds
pressure-some pounds less than was nee
essary to haul the heavy train. The en.
yineer was pot awakened a minutetoo soon.
for it was then half.past one u, M, and
at tive o'clock they we've due at Pough'
keepsie, The blower was put on, and in
five minutes the guuge showed u pressure
of ninety pounds, aud the train covered
the eight miles between it aud Pough-
keepsie in about two-thirds the time usu-
ally consumed. Fortunately, the con,
ductor was a staunch friend Of the engIn-
GERS, and that terrible dangerous nap re-
manned IA secret as far as the management
was concerned.
AN EXCITING INCIDENT.
On railways that intersect populous dis
tricts is not an unfrequent occurrence tor
an engineer 10 run down and Mil deaf,
bIiud or drunken persons who are walking
on the track. lie sounds his whistle and
expects them to leave the track. Persons
SO frequently step aside at the very last
moment that until that IEoment arrives
the engineer gives himself no uucaSiness.
A PRETTY scene that must have been Oh
the Pennsylvania Central, when on near.
ing Harrisburg the engineer Of an express
train discover u little girl at play on the
track ahead of hun. Her back toward
him, but he saw her golden curls, tie lit
tie bare arms, and almost Imagined be
heard the joyous prattle Of the u~ususpect-
ing child as the flying engine app; cached
the cross.tle where she sat. Perhaps be
Of just such another child al
home, for he spraug ION his cab--it was
too late to stop the train aud leaning
the ipilot" reached out and caught
The little girl just as she raised her head
and saw her danger. Then the mother.
who had seen the brave act, rushed from
the house AMI took the child from his
arms when the train YVES brought to "a
stop.
AN ENGINEERS FIRST VICTIM.
Last summer the engine run by Viii
lam Baird, Of the lightning expires
IN the Hudson River Railroad, struck
!, drunken man who was sitting On
! trestle.bridge at plume point and
killed him instantly. At the inquest,
he day after, the engineer told the writ
,r that exactly a year before on the very
lay he ha1 'struck his first man" some-
where just above Yonkers. Said he, IL
was running the Tightening then, and
was making lively time past Yonkers,
when l Jaw a young fellow with Il cane in
lis hand walking GU the down track. just
rs | got within a hundred feet Of him, he
deliberately walked over to my track. 1
@histled aud jerked back my lever. The
light was full 10 his face, aud when he
my whistle | saw an expression Of
horror on his face, for he was blind aud
had thought | was coming on the down.
track. He jumped. but it was too late
and saw him throw up his hands-I even
heard him shrick-as the pilot struck him.
| sat up that night and thought about that
poor fllow-no use trying to go to sleep
with that Oh my MUD. The next day |
saw him laid out in the depot. all toru
and mang.ed, but his face wasn't touched
at all, and after | took one look at him |
that face night aud day for six months
every minute | was on my engine. |
my eyes when | passed the place
where | struck him. | managed to get
another engine j; l did every thing, but
all the time, especially at night. in the
glare Of my headlight | saw that pale,
blind face. ! saw the hands thrown
up. and heard the poor fellow scream
when the pilot seemed to strike him.
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