The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-08
THE SACRIFICE OF A LIFE.

AN KNGINRBR's FATAL MISREPRESENTATION
ESCAPE OF THE PASSENGERS.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday
says: Yesterday morning about nine
O'Clock while train number five-the morn
ing express, which leaves Cincinnati at
7:3O-was passing Moore's Hill station on
the Ohio Il Mississippi railroad, and had
just rounded curve, the engineer diseoy-
cred that his right of way had been anti
cipated, and that the track only a
few yards in advance was occupied BY
a single locomotive, slowly vending
westward. Number five was five min
utes behind time, and was making up;
her impetus was, therefore, too great TO be
overcome with brakes and reversion In a
short distance. Her velocity and the inter-
loping locomotives slowness did the busi-
ness. With a tremendous crash she drove
into the tender OF the slowly advancing
engine, demolishing her own pilot and
headlight and making complete wreck oil
the tender. The shock brought the train to
a stand-s,in and the passengers were not
long in vomiting themselves forth, when a
survey of the results of the accident was
taken, when the engineer of the lone loco
motive was found jammed in between the
demolished tender and his engine,
HORRIBLY NANGLED AND QUITE DEAD.
His feet were both smashed, his abdomen
fearfully wounded, his left arm broken and
his right arm literally ground off close up
to the shoulder. The appearance his man
gled remains presented was sickening. he
had no sooner been dragged from the wreck
than his fireman and a young man from
Milan, who had been riding on the loco
tive, came rushing up and offered their ex-
PLANTATION OF the cause OF the accident. The
engineer whose name was John Mack, who
lived iD this city, and who until recently
had been employed as an engineer on the
indianapolis, Cincinnati q Louisville rail-
road, had left his train, which was freight,
on the side track at Moore's Hill. and had
been up to Milan for water. lie was back
ing down to the side track to get out OF the
way of No. 8, on whose time he knew he
was running. The fireman was 1rst 10
discover the oncoming express, and sig
nailed his discovery 20 the engineer, but
too late. He and the Milan boy jumped,
but the engineer, no doubt, seeing that ne
had made fatal mistake, was determined
to stay 1t out.
THE LAST SEEN OF HIM ALIVE,
and that Immediately before the crash, and
Just as he had succeeded in stopping bis
locomotive and in getting it to move away
from the approaching danger, was, with his
teeth firmly set, with one hand clenching
the tnrottle-vslve and the other the reverse
lever. He had fatally Numbered, but dying
at his post, he had averted what might nave
been a horrible catastrophe, and had in a
measure redeemed himself. His body was
brought to Cincinnati for burial. The pas.
seDgers were only momentarily stunned and
Geo. ID. Lewis, postal clerk, with his left arm
bruised, was the only one on the express
injured. Conductor Farmer, in charge OF NO
5, conducted affairs after the accident in the
"a ~1.~k.
his train soon after was again on its way to
St. Louis. The Louisville mail train, due In
Cincinnati at 1890 p. NJ, did not reach the
city much before three O'Clock, and with
this exception the monotony OF railway
timetable was as monotonous as before
Passengers moved on toward st. Louis re-
Numbering only for an instant that through
the sacrifice of life they possibly had beer
saved, while passengers from Louisville
chatted and laughed on toward Cincinnati
on the same train that bore the mangleC
corpse of the vindicated engineer.