, 1896-08-31
ACCIDENT ON THE COG.
AN ENGINE RUNS AWAY AND
THEN BLOWS ITSELF INTO
ATOMS.
The Startling Experience of a Party Of
Eastern Men on the Pixies Peak
Cog Road-The Brakes Worked
ard Saved All From humiliation
"A Boy Hurt.

"A Boy Hurt.
Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. 3d.
The party of English railroad officials
who are engaged in inspecting the rail-
road systems of the United States I'M
der"snt an experience OF the side OF
Pix Peak today which they are not
likely 10 forget during the remainder
of Their lives. White on their way
from the top of the peak back TO Mani
tou the locomtive of their one-car train
On a wild runaway.
Afser tearing up the track for about
A mile the ~unmanaged locomotive blew
itself to pieces. Happily the car on
tanning the passengers was locked to
The track by means of the safety brakes
before it could follow its engine, so its
inmates escaped whit some jolts and
bruises, in addition to the shock given
shem 10y the startling action of their
motor.
THE ASCENT TO THE TOP.
Those on the cog road car which was
left stranded by the runaway locomo-
tive came here from Denver yesterday.
The personnel of the party consisted of
Frederick Harrison, general manager
OF the London & Northwestern Rail-
way company, which operates the most
railroad system in Great Bril-
tain; Mrs. Harrison and maid, Superin-
tendent Turnbull of the same road and
his wife. and Signor Barattoni Of New
York, the American representative of
the London & Northwestern.
At 9 O'Clock this morning the party
left Manitou on the cog road for the
crest of Fixes Peak. Their train con
of one car and a locomotive. The
two were not coupled, as is usual with
trains on tJhe cog. The car was ahead,
and the locomotive under full steam
pushed it up the tortuous zigzag tracks
until the journey was completed.
About II O'Clock the visitors had seen
their full of Pixies Peak scenery and
got ON board their car Cor the down.
ward journey. This time they were be-
hind the locomotive, which touched
their car head-to. AS the locomotive
In this fashion. friction carried
the car after 1t.
"A point within a mile and a half or 80
of the Iron Springs terminus in Mani
iou had been reached and no one was
dreaming of accident, when suddenly a
sharp snap sounded from the locomo-
tive. Its piston rod had broken clean
IN two. The engineer saw in a twinki-
ing. He cried a scarcely necessary
warning to his fireman just as the en-
sine began turning itself loose on a
notwithstanding run to Iron Springs
THE WILD LOCOMOTIVE.
Leaving the locomotive to whatever
fate might befaN 1t, engineer and fire.
nan leaped into the air and struck the
side Of the track, alive but more or less
injured. Almost at the same instant
The brakes were applied to The sudden
ly abandoned car, as 1t became locked
fast to the track with a sharp jar, Mr..
Harrison and his friends were shaken
from their seats. When they regained
their feet they save the locomotive
speeding far down the track at a rate
hat made them dizzy.
more. now in the air and o touching
the rails. Its frightful momentum sent
an occasional shower of hct.Yster, coal
embers or a section of metal flying up
ward or outward, SO great was the
shaking up bs suffered. To those who
watched 1t appeared that the un1eashed
iron monster would finally destroy it.
self by pllmging into the Iron Springs
depot.
But this did not occur. The engine
suicided in a different and more dra-
matte fashion. Half a mile above Mani
pou the heavy machine seemed to pause
for a second or two. as II hesitating.
Then 1t ieaped into the air. there was
a loud, roaring report. and the engine
blew up with a force that shook the
peak and sent Its remains all over the
neighborhood. The largest intact Sec
ton, the boiler. went flying down q
gulch near by.