Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-14
IT'S OF no UsE.a
ABaggnge!Sniasller Can not be Killed.
Wonderful Escapes Of ssssDoc" Glow.

Wonderful Escapes OF sssDoc" Glow.
te&" New York Times.
"Doc" Glow, as he is known TO rail-
road men, but whose 1ightname Is Al.
bert Glow, lis one Of twelve through bag
gagemen IN the employment OF the New
York Central u Hudson River Railroad
company, and his roiite Is from New
York to Buffalo. He has probably been
in more asiIiash-,ips' than any other
railroad man in the United States, and
has seen men killed alongside Of him
right and left, but, with one exception,
he has always come out without reciev-
ing an injury Of any account. Twelve
years ago he was on milk train which
ran off o switch near Montrose, Hudson
River railroad, His car was upset and
broken, and tramp was killed, but
"Doc" came out OF the train All right.
He was on q Yonkers train which ran
into passenger train. -Four cars were
smashed and several persons were hurt,
bat "Docp crawled out from under a
car and helped to clear the track He
was through. baggagema on the. Pacific
express train which came into 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 bump
ed along over the tr6stlcwork before IL
came 10 the horrible chasm, INTO which
it plunged. AS II lay on its side the
door was, Of course, on top, and through
it."Doc" crawled, and, ~ he reached
theopcning,a torriGcjo!ting hurled him
on the ice below, over which the burn
ing kerosene from the burst oil cars was
flowing, but he managed to crawl to
safety, receiving only % slight singeing
The other man was carried down into
the river beneath the drnw with the car
and killed, hpd In all the cars that went
through the brdge, Doc WIS the only
person saved, Two or three yenrs ago
CLOVIS train was IN Il collision near
Grcenbush. His baggnge-car was torn
10 pieces, and no was smashed in with
tho baggage, but. not u bone was,bro-
ken. III this accident two were Killed.
A yearaitor another collision occurred
near the same place, and "Doc's" train
was again IN Ii. The baggago-ear and
exprcbs-ear were smashed to flinders,
butopce moro 'Doc" escaped, and agam
two persons were killed. Then his car
was run into by q car loaded with lum-
boz AZ West Albnny, and tho lumber
was telescoped into the baggage-car, but
IN II came In ono end DOG went out
tho other. Some time after hia train
WIS run into by q coal-car, and his bag
gage.cnr was wrecked. In this accident
L. Ia. a Inf,.u.. y,nnul, mud
went'over aud over into Il ditch, but not
n bone was broken. Again, he was
baggagemaster on the ~ Louis ,cx-
press when II ran Of tho track n short
distance east Of Buffalo a few years ago.
Tho train WIS badly damaged, and tlio
express messenger Ia tho car ahead Of
him was burned TO donth, but doc"
did mol receive II scratch. In oil these
hairbreadtlr escapes he never received
II scar. But to-day he carries u scar
WHICH worries him. II reaches from
the centre Of his forehead down 10 the
end Of his nose, ~ sort Of Sig-zlg scar,
IN though ho hud boon struck by light
ming. Ito got that about four weeks
ago in the accident on the Harlem rail-
road, near Williams Bridge. lilo was
"doadhoading' up tho road on il pas
senger train, which smashed into n
freight train. In tho accident several
persons were hurt and tho fireman
killed. doc" was hurled over four or
two seats and slammed against the oar
door. This is his latest. Glow ism sim
glo man, about 80 years Of age, and
lives in Now York Ho is II regular
railrua Jonah, and whenever his train
gots through MI right there need he no
fears about the others Hc has been in
tho employ OF the Hudson River rail-
road nearly eighteen years, and IL IN
every respect y iirst-class baggagc.man,