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RAILROAD MEN IN ACCIDENTS.


Cleveland Mofett tells IN St. Mich
alas Of the life OF locomotive engl-
neers-
There is q place in New Tork-the
serv last place one would think Of
where steries without end may be
heard about locomotives and the men
who run them. 1t is not place OF
Crime and steam, but q quiet and
luxurious club spreading over the top
door OF a very tail building on Forty
second street. and here every day at
nncheon-tirne railroad officials gath
er: superintendents, managers and
various heads Of departments, men
who may have grown prosperous and
portly. but are always proud TO tax
about the boys at the throttle, and
recall experiences Of their own N GER
tain exciting runs.
In the wide hall nea- the entrance
OF this Trans sportatiOn club IS a dI1V-
ing-wheel, green painted, from the
De Witt Clinton, the first locomotive
that drew a passenger train in the
state of New York. It is scarcely
larger than a wagon wheel, though 1t
is of iron, and an inscription sets
forth how it made the historic ISn
from Albany to Schenectady on Au-
gust Q, 1881. The walls show many
pictures, famous locomotives, scenes
OF accidents. and there are thrilling
memories here in abundance II one
have with him some veteran Of the
road to recall them.
1T is not always the most serious
accidents that frighten man most"
remarked a high official of the New
York Central, one day, while the rest
of US listened. Zone of the worst
scares 1 ever had was on a freight
train when there rely wasn't any
thing to be scared about. We had
Just pulled out of Ottumwa, Ia, one
dark night, with a caboose full Of
passengers. when rump-ump-b
rip. You never heard such
racket. First one end of the car was
lifted up off sthe rails and slammed
/ down again, and then the other end
was treated the same way; up and
down we went, bump, lump, bumpl
/ and smash went a window, and out
/ went the lights. Now what do you
/ suppose it was? Well, it wasn't any
thing alive, but it got US into a panic
all right We waved a lantern like
fury to the engineer ahead, but it
seemed an age before he saw it, and
we just bumped along, expecting
every second to be split into kindliug-
wood.
1--WE stopped at last. and found it
was a beer keg-yes, sir, an empty
/ beerkeg that had got caught under
| tae caboose between the rear axle
and the bolster of the truck and had
rolled along over the ties with the
car balanced on it like a man riding
a rail. ft wa1n't broken either; no,
sir, not q bit; azo .Te had to chisel
( through every separate hoop before
we could get it out Talk about maxi
ing things strongly That beer keg
was a wonder"
81 had a more exciting experience
than that said another olficiai-he
was in the frcight-Aan6l;ng depart
7 ment "It was q long time ago.
remember getting out at a station
+ near Cincinnati for i hurried lunch,
and before knew t the train start-
/ ed. i was mp hy tie engine. and as
the drivers began faaa jumped
on the pilot. Ioe had often rid
d4n there. leing i1al man. and
the engineer knew re.
"e M ffcg wI fer 2 few
miles. arf at o the bumper cn-