American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-01
A BaSSagc-Smasher Who Can
Not BE Killed.

| Not BE Killed.
| "DOc" Glow, as he is known to rail-
road men, but whose right name is
Albert Glow, is one of twelve through
| baggagemen in the employment of the
| Now York Central & Hudson River Rail-
road Company, and his route is from
New York to Buffalo. He has probably
been in more" smash-ups" than any
other railroad man in the United States,
and has seen men killed alongside of
| him right and left, but, with one excep-
ton, he has always come out without
receiving an injury of any account.
Twelve years ago he was on milk train
which ran off a switch near Montrose,
Hudson River Railroad. His. car was
upset and broken, and a tramp was
killed, but "Doc" came out of the train
all right. He was on Yonkers train
which ran into passenger train. Four
cars were smashed and several persons
were hurt, but "Doc" crawled out from
under a car and helped to clear the
track. He was through-b aggageman on
the Pacific express train which came in
to collision with an oil train seven years
ago on the New Hamburg drawbridge,
and another man was in the car with
him. The car, when the train struck
the oil train, turned over on its side and
bumped along over the trestlework be-
fore it came to the horrible chasm, into
which it plunged. As it lay on its side
the door was, of course, on top, and
through it "Doc - crawled, and as he
reached the opening, terrific jolting
hurled him on the ice below, over which
the burning kerosene from the burst oil
cars was flowing, but he managed to
crawl to safety, receiving only a slight
smuggling. The other man was carried
down into the river beneath the draw
with the car and killed, and in all the
cars that went through the bridge,
"Doc" was the only person saved.
Two or three years ago CLOVIS train
was in a collision near Greenbush. His
baggage-car was torn to pieces, and he
was smashed in with the baggage, but
not bone was broken. In this acct
dent two were killed. A year after an
other collision occurred near the same
place, and " Docs" train was again in
it. The baggage car and express-car
were smashed to flinders, but once more
e" Doc" escaped, and again two per-
sons were killed. Then his car was run
into by car loaded with lumber at West
Albany, and the lumber was telescoped
into the baggage car, but as it came in
one end "DOc went out the other
Some time after his train was run into
by coal-car, and his baggage-car was
wrecked. In this accident he jumped be-
fore the crash came, and went over and
over into ditch, but not bone was brok-
en-. Again, he was baggage smasher on
the st. Louis express when it ran off the
track short distance east of Buffalo
few years ago. The train was badly
damaged, and the express messenger in
the car ahead of him was burned to |
death, but ''Doc" did not receive
scratch. In all these hair-breadth es-
capes he never received a scar. But to-
day he carries a scar which worries |
him. 1t reaches from the center of his
down to the end of his nose
a sort of zig-zag scar, as though he had
been struck by lightning. He got that
about four weeks ago in the accident on
the Harlem Railroad, near Williams
Bridge. He was "deadheading" up the
road on passenger train, which
into freight train. In the
accident several persons were hurt and
he fremen killed. "Doc" was hurled
over four or five seats and slammed
against the car door. This is his latest.
Glow is single man, about 35 years of
age, and lives in New York. He is a
regular railroad Jonah, and whenever
his train gets through all right there
iced be no fears about the others. He
las been in the employ of the Hudson
River Railroad nearly IS years, and is
n every respect a first-class baggage
nan.-Cor. NeU York Times.