Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-13

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exieotte, who fo.merIy resided in
Pine Bluff, aud /: well remembered
by many people of this city, the Grip
ple Creek. Colo, Times of last
Wednesday says
George Calieotte, we'll known en-
gineer en- the Florence and Cripple
Creek lailway. died at the Sisters
hospital at 9:25 last night as The re-
suit of falling from his engine near
Eclipse at 7:o5 p. m.
Callicotte's injuries were Of dis
tressing nature. the back Of the unf0r-
tunate engineer 0eing broken in the
region OF the kidneys by the hammer
ing of the trucks of the tain from
which be had fallen.
DR.. Magruder attended the wounded
man and alleyiated his sufferings to
a great extent, but permanent relief
was impossible owing to the terrific
havoc wrought to the spinal column.
The accident IN which Callicotte was
injured was a most peculiar one. He
was thrown from the gangway CT his
cab while rounding the sharp curve
at Eclipse. No. 10, leaving Cripple
Creek at 6: Is. was due, and Callicotte
had an order to meet it at Eclipse
He had stepped to the door Of the cab
to see how nearly the southbound
train was approaching. He had not
yet applied the air preparatory to
stopping and the train was going very
fast. The engine lurched, and the
engineer was thrown violently out OF
the cab.
The fireman, seeing, Callicotte
allght, and thinking the latter had
jumped to avoid a collision, jumped
without applying the air, and No 90
rushed on to meet No 20, on the same
track, making disastrous head-on
collision inevitable
But Conductor Wilcox had seen the
luckless engineer fall and knew that
no brakes had been applied. Quickly
crawling over the tender, the conduc-
Tor set the airbrake in the cab of
the engine, thus stopping the train
within fifty yards of No. 70 and pre-
venting collision.
Then, jumping from the train
which was still moving at the rate of
thlrty miles per hour, Conductor Will
COX rescued the body or the engineer
Hom further demolition. For the en-
sineer, after striking the embankment
rolled back under the train and was
pelng struck by each succeeding truck
ol the rapidly moving train. The
injured man was put aboard a train
ana brought to this city. The ambu-
ldnce was summoned to the depot and
ealllcotte was taken to the Sisters
Hos pltal, where he succumbed to the
grim reaper in about an hour and a
haf' Conductor Wilcox, who showed
himself an ideally practical railroad
inan IN every emergency, pulled the
.ialh from Eclipse to this city.
AT the hospital Callicotte displayed
sieae fortitude. Although in fearful
agony, he requested that his wife be
summoned from Victor, and that the
sacrament of baptism be administered
ooth requests We're granted, Mrs. Cal
iicotte arriving just in time to see her
husband breathe his last. Callicotte
leaves six children, the eldest being
sixteen years of age. The family re-
SUES in Victor, but is we'll known
III this city, having lived at 10 West
~ Faso street for a number of years.
ne oead engineer was one Of the
'nos' trusted men in the employ Of
'ue florence and Cripple Creek rail-
'oao and had worked for the company
ior number of years. He was a
niehlper of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Engineers and had worked on
several OF the large eastern Systems.