Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1889-05-18
DEATHS CALL.
How n Train Ran with n Dead
Engineer.

engineer
The passengers on the eastbound
lightning express train which reached
Rochester the other morning little
thought that few miles west Of
that city their train was running at
the rate of sixty miles an hour, with
dead engineer at the throttle and an
almost crazed fireman in the cab.
Such, however, was the fact.
When the train left Buffalo, bound
east, it was about twelve minutes late,
and it was the desire OF the engineer
10 make up that loss between Buffalo
and Rochester. Levi 5. Lewis, one OF
the oldest and most trustworthy en-
gineers in the employ OF the New
York Central x Hudson River rail-
road, was in the cab, and he had seen
TO it that everything was in the best
condition for fast run out.
The big locomotive stood painting
and wheeling in the Buffalo depot
when the veteran engineer took his
seat in the cab and pulled the throttle
open. With a bound the steel steed
was off and the long, heavy train
dashed through the country at a mile
a minute.
Fireman Parker had the other side
of the cab, but was kept so busy dur
ing the fast run shovellng coal into the
furnaces that he had little time 10 OBJ
serve what was passing around.
When Engineer Lewis whistled for
Brockport he looked nervously at his
watch and remarked that hall the lost
time had been recovered.
The train sped rapidly through the
little town, and the fireman noticed
that Engineer Lewis was almost as
pale as death as he sat on his seat,
his right hand grasping the handle OF
the throttle lever, and his left firmly
gripping the reversing bar. The en-
CINE groaned and trembled as it
bounded over the glittering rails. That
the old engineer was suffering the fiIe-
man had no doubt.
Adams Beach, little hamlet
twelve miles west OF Rochester, APP
peared, and the big engine rushed
madly on, its shrill whistle screaming
an alarm as il flew. The last whistle
sounded the death knell OF the brave
old engineer. He had tried to beat
time in its fight, but time had come
off the victor. As the houses oi
Adams Beach went spinning and
twisting by, the engineer threw back
his head, his body wavered for mo-
ment and he fell heavily to the iron
fioor-stone dead.
The terrified fireman knew not what
to do. He knew the risk he ran, foi
the dead engineer still grasped the
throttle, and in his fall the weight o.
his body pulled the throttle still far
ther open. The train had now at
tanned a frightlul speed, and some
thing must be done to stop it. BY {
powerful effort the fireman wrencheC
the dead mans hand from the throt
tie and shut off the steam. Then h,
applied the air brakes and the light
ming express quickly came to a stand
still.
The conductor and trainmen ran I,
the cab and there found the body o
the faithful veteran stretched out upor
the floor. He was tenderly- carried {,
the baggage car, and a physician who
happened to be on the tram. was hast
lily summoned. He pronounced lif,
extinct, and said that death had beer
instantaneous and had been caused by
heart disease.
The fireman then took charge OF tn,
locomotive until Rochester wai
reached, where a new engineer wa
procured. The passengers on tha
train little imagined the tragedy thai
was being enacted in the cab OF tha
flying locomotive, while they were
quietly reading or smoking in thei
seats in the comfortable coaches in thu
train.-New York Evening Sun.