Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-14

! into a spot that had washed out after
/ the first train had passed. The rails
t stretched level across the gap, and the
! ties. held up by their spikes. looked as
/ they had always looked. But underneath
| them the road-bed was washed away.
| The engine Wavered an instant. dipped
| its nCse downward, and toppled over.
| The steam connections broke and the
engineer and firemen were scalded to
| death.
Half way between West Point and the
place where Binns.s engine went over,
| is the spot where Engineer John Lynch,
who is still in the service, narrowly es-
capped death
This, also, was in 1855 The engine
struck q washout and rolled over into
; the creek, where it lay nearty--coverea
with water. Fireman Darwin was caught
Bv, the edriving-rod Of the engine and
was drowned. Lynch, thoroughly dazed,
the train, and he can't tell to this day
how nor when he get there.
Only few weeks later this same en-
Sineer near the same place. on the down
run, saw a landslide ahead. He and his
fireman both jumped The engine ran
into the slide and turned upside down.
The average man would have left the
engine as she was: But Lynch was q
little above the average that day. Tie
Went rack and squeezing into he*up-
turned cab. opened the injector to ret
water enough into the boiler to keep
from burning out the crown sheets. linen
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the wrecking train.
A lucky man is Engineer Bill Day,
who pulls freight on the James-R1ver
Division.
In August. 1900, Day was coming east
one trip with a big freight engine. and
forty-six loaded coal-cars: On a curve
near Westham, with the road clear and
level and with his engine apparently in
perfect order, he saw his front trucks
begin to ride up onto the rail
Dey knew what that meant. He shut
off the throttle and threw off the air
Then he made a step for the y. front n, WI" IN
gire was running on the ties. Day 1elt
her topping over, and jumped back
Before. he could get out she rolled over,
on the-river side 90 the track. The ten
der. driven-by the heavy train behind it,
rode on over the engine, stripping the
boiler bare and clear. Cab. whistle.
sand-boX bell, and sInokestack all went.
This done the tender fte,'- having gene
five car lengths past the engine swung
around facing the west, and 4 torty-ton
car following after it turned over anu
buried the engineer under great mass
of coal. All that showed of Day was
one hand With which he tried to get.the
coal away from his face. His legs were
pinned down into the coal by the frame
the car the de enT o the .n scadn n
water was the bed of coal which Jay
upon him. After two hours and halt
they dug him out. badly bruised. but
without Il bone DfOhell s@ ttAF -
The fireman jumped from the CAP;
landed in the. middle of the, track. jumped
again and landed in the canal, with
coal-car close after him. A shoulder
strap on his overalls broke and the en-
tanglement- nearly drowned him: but he
dlIallv reached the shore, nearly forty
Yards below the wreck .fr.> b. ,.=
A head-on collision on the road pc
tween Buffalo Springs and -GreenWay
was what killed SD. ,Treviian. another
Chesapeake and Ohio engineer, and
nearly, killed his fireman. Jack HaWks:
The two trains came together and left
nothing but tlra bare boilers OF the two
engines Trevlian jumped from the side
of the cab but was struck in mid air.
by~<a car that came hurting past the
engine from behind. He was caught be-
nearh the wserkrof9 the car and inst a an.
killed. The fireman. was seyeFalX.ln1
bycthe. wreckage OF cars which piled upon,
him.- The crew on the other engine saw
the danger fivst and t-jnmped TO SAFETY.
A. Chesapeake andgOh engineer told
me 81 Dry a few nights ago, which shows
how :, man can become 50 engrossed in
an effort to stop his llsine that he for
gets entirely his own da niger: ;fz{5s
was coming east thai trip, e he said,
"ata md orders to- meet a train at a
staiion-d own the road y kneW--that the.
other fellow had a long train and that the
side trac1-was a. short, one.s So s. tried ito
stop MY train alta sta ton annie saboYecas
rns air gauge looked albright, and ssthe: