New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-20
An ENGINES MAD Run IN BALIIAohh'
ITS CAB DEsERTED-No LIVES LOST BUT fhor'
ERTY WORTH $50 600 DESTROYED.

ITS CAR DFsERTED-NO LIVES LOST, BUT PROF
rRTy WORTH $4,000 DESTROYED.
baltimore Aug. 10 (speciaD.-Alarmed at an I'M
pendnq collision Engineer benjamin Flickenger anu
Fireman Edward Cox. OF a Pennsylvania haiIV"i
shifting locomotive, this morning turned .nel -"
pne loose then leaped from the cab, and the ny :
mass of machinery rushed through the city tunhoi a"u
the Union Station, smashing everything I'D the way
and finally telescoping freight car and ourylhe ~
self in the stone wall Of big warehouse Iho i"N
road employes and the citizens who beheh the iocoho
tive dashinp down the track at full speed with no one
M the throttle were terrOr-sricken The damage W
nroperty will reach $4,000. The engineer "ho Chu'
left his machine to wild in Its wOrK oI
SAWS he could not otherwise have avomed cohi'io"
and loss of life. lie has always been regsueu a. o
of the most careful enginemen on the roau' i"'
shifting locomotive standing at Lafayette etauoii'
inst utshde the city limits. As the engineer was
about TO move of the track he saw the Ne"-f)rh ahu
PHILADELPHIA EXPRESS from Washington coming aroui
c,rve at fIlI speed and not over 100 y@us
away There was 10 time to get ou'
of the way except by going III ~
same direction as the express and gong WIN sioa
speed al that The shifting engine was FACING "0S',
ard the express was coming east. Eager " '''ls
a smashup and possible loss OF life the engnoei VI
the shifting engine told the hremah 10 jump - ,
rho engine then he reversed the throttle, ana took
a living lean himself alighting in safety BacKwaru
fine engine rushed rapidly Increasing speed ""aiu
the mouth of the tunnel at Fulton statioh' 'no
philadelphia flyer close behind it with BILL hoad OIL
steam on. . H.. .
II usually requires four and hall minutes ior
train 10 get through the of the three long runners
between Lafayette and Union Stations out ule WIN
shifting engine made the distance In about thirty
seconds Then IL shot into the yawning NOUN Vi
No secton and all that the amazed track -"alAer
saw was a cloud of smoke and sparks. The furnace
doors were swung ajar by the tremendous momentum
and the fires were famed to a white heat ana Wero
sending forth tongues Of flame. As the wild ioco
motive rushed into Union station, 1t ran along 'ne
track next to that on which stood the vestbue trah
| for New.York The passengers about ooarIhe the
| latter narrowly escaped being crushed 10 uedth
! Meanwhile the runaway far in the lead OF the
exnress train which stopped in the Union Station
On flew the iron racer, through the UnSoh oauon i
over the iron bridge across switch, anu IoMalu
Ciyert Stafion In the centre of the city. There were
numerous grade street-crOssings in It's pain ga,Ge,
werg up and several strcetcars ana wagons palciy
escaped demolition. As the runaway nearer OdiNGr
station II struck the rear car OF relghl 'rdIn M
| smashing the car and its own snOkestack anu con
/ catcher moment later 1t struck anOther sngI sI
train of freight cars, deIang them ana lheh IdsI
Ing off on a siding and into the wall OF NeIso no s
4 Co < warehouse where il tore hole nearly SA ZEE
square In the massive wall The yard Is plleI WIZ m
wreckage of cars and locomotives but iortuhaeS III
| one WAS hurt.