The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-12
TRACK TALK.
Narrow Escape of Brakeman ON the
C..M. & st. p. Road---0ther Notes.
STRUCK BY A CAR.

STRUCK BY CAR.
Frank Lucey, brakeman on Conduc>
tor Bakers train on the c., N. & St. P.
road, had a narrow escape from death at
Port Byron Saturday afternoon. Train
No. 6, in charge of Conductor Campbell.
leaving here at O'Clock Saturday morn
iRg, switched car loaded with coal on
the side track at Port Byron. The sta>
ton hand who unloaded the car pushed
it up near platform TO more readily per-
form his work, and it happeaed TO be too
near tine main track. When Engineer
Miller, of train No. 5, whistled for Port
Byron, Brakeman Lucey passed over an
empty fiat which was next to the engine.
for the purpose Of putting on the brakes.
While climbing up the side of a box car,
the train passed the switch upon which
the empty car was standing, and the in
tervening space not being large enough,
Lucey was struck just above the hip with
violent iorce Retaining his presence of
mind, he crawled back to the fat. and
there sank unconscious. He was found
by the train men and taken back to the
.caboose.
The train was running about eight
miles an hour when the accident oc-
Cured, and it is miracle that LUeey es-
capped with his life, Had he fell to the
ground death would have been inevitable.
DR.. COwden attended the injured man at
the City hotel yesterday, and found that
although he was badly bruised. no bones
were broken. Il will be over a week
however, before Lucey will be able to work
again His home is at Lyons, Iowa.
OTHER NEWS.
Mr.. Robert Stockhouse, of the r.. !. P,
returned this morning from Chicago.
Several box cars are receiving an over
hauling in the upper yard of the c.. R l.
& P.
Ben Ely and Charley McDole have not
as yet got back to their places on Com
ductor Auld's train on the r. l. & P.
Train Dispatcher Looney, of the R. I.
q P, is suffering greatly from that ul-
cerated tooth again. and Mr. Hugh Green
ough was in his place today,
The Rock Island Il Mercer county road
is doing booming business IN the lrans>
portation Of live stock and coal. 1t is
doubtful if there is a short line road in
the state that begins to do business equal
to the r l. & NJ c.
The cannonball train was reported four
hours late this morning on account of
heavy snow fall in the northwest A
number Of passengers who were waiting
for the train at the union depot were
heard to express their displeasure at the
delay in very pointed language
Mr. A, \, Morton is now comfortably
settled at Peoria as passenger agent for
the c. r. & P. and r. l. & P roads,
He has sent some Of the c. r. l. & P's
highly colored calendars to this city, and
with his usual forethought adds little
advertising card concocted by himself as
follows: The only line running through
day, dining and sleeping cars between
Peoria and Chicago" What the adver-
Using agent of the road cannot devise
Mort" will supply. He is a live, ener-
getic railroad man. but we are sorry he
has forsaken Us to live in wicked Peoria
Engineer Richard, who pulls Con,
ductor Cross Flying Dutchman ON
the c., NJ. & St. p. road between here
and Savanna, has caught the skating fe>
yer He has several hours to himself at
Savanna eafh day, and Saturday he de-
termined TO take jaunt up the river on
skates. His principal object seems to
have been to find Tom Fuller, who he
supposed was still in some cave in the
Wisconsin wilds. He sped along mile
after mile, until he fairly eclipsed the 2jJ
for speed. Finally it occurred to him that
he had to be back at Savanna before 6
o'clock and he was compelled to return
without even the slightest clue of Fuller's
whereabouts. BY hard work he made
connections, but vows be will never skate
so long a distance in so short a time again.