Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-02-28
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Akron tranmen are telling of re-
cent wreck which occurred in the @.
A. & G. yards at Columbus. They say
that 1t is the first one Of the kind
in the history of the road. The Col
umbus Dispatch gives the following
account of the affair:
Look out, here comes a runawayw
shouted the switchman and the
sleepy yardmen who were crowded
around the stove in the shanty rushed
to the door just in time to see a cut
of cars thunder by at terrific rate
of speed. A minute later there was u
crash that could be heard for miles,
and which sounded as if the whole
union station had been blown up with
dynamite. While switching cars in
the G., A. & g., yards cut of cars
got loose from the crew and started
down the hill toward union station.
AS it is down grade all the way, by
the time the cut reached the yards
near the union station, it was running
at terrific rate of speed. Just how
1t happened no one in the crew seems
to know, as it is the first time that
the brakeman who Is usually stationed
on the front end of the cut was un-
able to effectually apply the brakes.
1t seems that the engineer in switch
ing cut of seventeen cars from No /
to No. switch did not take into con-
slderation the long hill just west of the
yards and gave the cars too big start.
The brakeman applied the brakes with
all his might but they did not check
the speed of the cut, which by the time
1t reached the bottom of the hill in the
yards at the east Of the union station
was running at about 40 miles an hour.
There was only one thing to do and
that was to jump. If he stayed on the
cut he would be ground to pieces, as
there was nothing to stop the run
away" SO setting the brakes he leaped
far out from the train, alighting on
pile of cinders, uninjured but fearful
for the runaway which was now
heading for the union station.
The c., A. & g. crew had just made
up a train in yard G of the Pan Handle
and were pulling out on the main
track toward the Pan Handle shops,
when the cut dashed by. The switches
all the way back to the yards had
been left open and instead of going
into the Union sation, the cut went
to the left into yard G of the Pan
Handle down the track left vacant by
the @. A. & @. train. 1t tore the back
stop from its fastenings and plunged
into the rear of Colts printing cs-
tablishment, which Is in the Union
station building facing on High st.
Scranton, Pa.,) newspaper men have
taken the initiative in what promises
to be very effective method of pro.
curing interviews. Co-important with
lead pencil Is Il big, murderous.look-
ing revolver, and it is said the Scran,
ton men are good obtainers of inter-
views. Refused audience, or the con-
tribution Of any expressions by poll
tician, or capitalist the reporter be-
gins business without further delay.
Entering the lair Of n politician, he
says, In the reporters usually modest
manner: "Wcll, what's new in poll
tics? How about your good friend
Jones, candidate for Mayor, who says
you are n nincompoop in politics?"
"You young scamp, I've nothing to
say. It's none Of your business or
the business OF your paper, what
think of Jones. Now, get out, or I'll
kick you up among the telegraph
wires"
"Oh, you WILL" replies the Scranton
reporter, contemptuously, at the same
time producing n 9s-calibrc Smith &
Wessop. 1T is my pleasure, and also
that of my paper that you give some
hot stun for our political column.