The evening world., 1903-04-13
DISASTER PREVENTED BY
i Il A cO0L-HEADED FIREMAN.
]. B. Howard, Knowing Some-
thing Is Wrong, Makes a Per-
! iIous Crawl to the Engine,
Finds the Driver, J. Walter
Farley, Dead, and Stops the
Flying Train Just In Time.

= bALI1MOhE, ApiAi lS'-Ndth tlo uS@i
! rngineers body hanging from the cab
window, the throttle wide open and the
Royal Blue Express making fifty-hve
miles or more an hour. II she were NOV
ing at oil. the passengers of this aris-
tocratic train OF the Baltimore and ONO
road knew something of the danger
: they had been in for miles and miles
of the journey.
Fdrst, they had wondered why the
train had torn through a station at
which 1t should have stopped. Then
their wonder became fear as the train
sped about sharp curves so fast that 1t
was held to the track by the flanges Of
: the wheels on only one side OF the train.
Terror came as the train dashed over n
crossing. narrowly averting collision
with another train.
Then the passengers knew that some
thing was wrong ahead. Their Tears
were not quieted until they stepped
safely from the train in this city.
Fell Dead on Cab Sill.
Somewhere down by the susquehanna
River bridge Engineer ]. Walter Farley.
who had been hauling the fast trains of
the system for more than twenty years,
put his head too far out of the cab win
dow. II was struck by the bridge or a
signal pole. and after that 1t was all
over with the engineer. His body foil
across the sill of the window, and while
Z his head. shoulders and arms danGIed
out OF the cab, his legs We're held In by
) being caught In the reverse lever.
n Fireman J. B. Howard was busy at
the firebox feeding coal to the fire.
On fast run like this It Is necessary
for the fireman to remain almost con-
! stantly at the frebox, continually shov-
,elling coal. And had there been third
/, man in the cab, as repeatedly urged by
!, The Evening World. danger from such
an accident as this would have been
averted.
Z But with Howard out OF the cab the
engineer was struck unseen. The fire
man was too busy to notice that Far
ley had not whIst,ed at the cross roads.
lie knew that the throttle was open
fulI but this was reasonable. as from
the Susquehanna up and beyond Chilus
VISITATION 1t is an upgrade and takes lots
Z OF fSteam. Howard did not notice the
station so glitttering by. nor Oar the
4 excited station people shouting lrlnucai'
ly at the wild racing train.
MadIy Dashed by station.
inside the train the plssengers-and
. their class was high, as this is train
of luxury-fet secure until the train
went roaring through Childs station
Several wished to alight there. On .-.S
t..sa la ha
: her of persons. but the train was going
so fast that they appeared like a speck
cn broad landscape.
( Several passengers ran for the con.
ptiuctor 10 demand why the train dd not
stop at 'Childs. The conductof pulled
sshe bell cord The train never heiitatCd
Jie pulled again. and tho train con.
! iinued on. faster now than It had ever
} gone before.
E At the tirebox. Fireman Howard could
not hear the bell being rung oy tho
Y conduclor. The bell was up by the
sosaad- engineer. But after the top o'
sd1ie grade had been reached aHd the
train still continued at full speed How.
srd thought something was WRONG,
} Never before had Farley kept the
throttie wide on the down grade, lie
looked around the corner of the llrc-
box and saw the engineer and his
:, position looked natural. But on the
,dpwn grade the throttle was s;i!l open
cg,id the train kept going faster and
-ifaster. II Il were possible.
81. Finally. when the careening about the
slcurves came and the train plunged over
q crossing without stopping, as required
by Law, Howard knew something was
wrong and climbed up into the engin.
4 eere cab.
yes but second when he discov-
4 ered that Farley was dead and in the
same second he had the steam shut on.
iauling the body back into the CAB
4 sfeTard ran the train TO Ferris IAN.
where another engineer was secured.
}f3ut from there on the train had "a
~ SOW, an X was away ahead OF tune
BACK by the Susquehanna River bridge
tfe engineer's hat was found. There
Was q cut on his forehead and his skuJ
Vas fractured. II was evident that ht
hnd leaned too far out at either tn,
&zldEe or a signal pole near It.