New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-20
AN ENGINEERS BRAVERY.
s.y1NG HIS PASSENGERS BY QUICK
DECISION.
nynrp BY THE THouGHTFuLNEss OF 0A"'
a.eExAN-MANY LIVES IN PERIL FOR
voxEyr ON THE LAKE SHORE ROAD.
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Erie. Penn, Oct. l9.-Tbe Lake Snofe s"u
saohissn Southern Railroad narrowly esc"pea
catastrophe to-day near Irving Stauon' a
'tbree miles east Of Silver Creek. ~
freight No. so, in charge Of Conduc'o, ".,a
iConnor was running in three sections. i"' IT,.
die section broke in two near H.ns +ho
engine pulling the third section cfa@"e. -. ,,,,
caboose Of the broken section anu 0u. -. ;n,o
.s.ouol tour or five cars. breaking them ln'o
IrdIino wood MANY cattle were killed anu TWO
go ,,.rs thrown partly across the track OF Une
Lake Shore Limited NO. o. ""''A
along down the grade.
The exprcss was endeavoring 10 "ake "p ~n'e
an IN. down grade, and its speed couid hoe nave
h.rn less than fifty miles an hour. Inc sr"an WINS
,,.a. I'm OF a baggage car smoking car, owo
,.v coaches. and seven Pullman cars, drawn Dy q
,,netvton engine, No. "a. John Burns, en-
sn..y. Frank Watt, conductor. The engine was
> n.w one the Ed. Gallup. II he attempted to
.,on the train. Burns felt sure that. while he
,,icbt save his own life by jumping. the passen-
..rs would meet horrible fate. Jumping from
h;s seat in front of the boiler, he threw Ms
engine wide open and awaited the crash. The
h.avy locomotive driven at such speed cut through
the fragments of wreck as o knife would cleave
an apple, and opened the way for his train. lie
then reversed the engine and stopped the Train.
When Burns emerged from the wreck ne had
sne arm scslded. was covered with cuts anu
bruises but was not dangerously hurt.
Burns's presence of mind was seconded by the
nuick Wit OF o baggageman, who started TO run
through the coaches, telling people to get on the
outer side of the car. He had gone through two
rars when the crash came. The engine and
ehnA
torn from the two coaches. whose passengers had
inst been warned. One woman, who had two
rbs broken, was the only person serlously injured
She was Mrs Mary Kane. sixty-fve years old, Of
Dennison, Ohio. Susie Heitner. ntte girl from
Chicago, was painfully bruised, and John Quinn,
. Buffalo newsboy, was injured in similar man
ner Joseph Myers, Of Cleveland, was hurt about
the head. Other passengers were slightly hurt
:Of course there was great excitement and alarm
among the passengers Many cattle that had
their horns torn off ran belowlng up the roao,
while others pinioned in the wreck added their
cYies of distress to the tumult
The engineer and fireman OF No.. 3Sl, the
freight engine, jumped and escaped unhaxmed SO
did the fireman of the passenger engtM. But
car in the train left the track, and Judge s. s;
burke. president Of the Toledo and Ohio Central
,Railroad, who was a passenger. pronounced IL tne
most wonderful escape or res Snja1e, soston
banker headed list. and over S40O were pre-
sented 10 Burns by the passengers.
1t is thought remarkable that such an acaaent ~
could have occurred under the block system OF
signalling unless the third section of the rrelght
was following closer than it's order permitted
COLLISION WITH FREIGHT TRAIN IN CHICAGO
Chicago, Oct. 10 (specaD.-Passengers on the
Chicago and Erie Limited train due here last night had
9 narrow escape at Forty -frstst. The train was
forty.Ave minutes ate when IL left Rochester, ano
the engineer was doing his best to make up lost time
After reaching the city limits he had dovn-grade
ana was rus hing along. Suddenly he saw something
on the track ahead. He Immediately reversed the
enstne and put on the brakes. The momentum OF the
train was so great however, that 1t was impossible
20 stop in tme and the engine crashed into the OBJ
s,rnction II was freight train which had been left
on the track without danger lights. The brakes had
reduced tho speed Of the train sufficiently SO that
only the engine and the last OF the long line OF
freight cars were wrecked The car was lifted from
It's trucks one end resting on the engine the mont
Of which was smashed. None Of the passengers was
seriously injured. though all were badly shaken mp
and some Of those in the smoking car were struck by
the lamps which were torn from their fastenings.