Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-25
ENGINEER HUBER
 IS NOW HERO
STAYED IN CAB WHEN TRAINS cOLIIOED AT GALENA SIDING
Wreck Has All Been Cleared Away
 and Trains are Running Again as UsuaI-Train Crews Not Blamed

Usuai-Train Crews Not Blamed ] Early yesterday morning the wreck | ing crew had the wreck near Galena | Siding all cleared away, and trains were running yesterday as usual. | The men worked through the night to , clear the tracK in order to get trains through to this city.
 Engines Nos. ' and have been taken to Douglas and will be sent to the company's shows for repairs. Both are damaged to such an extent that a great deal of work will have to be done on the locomotives before they will again be ready for use. Thus far the officials of the company have given out no official statement re egarding where the blame rests for the collision of the ore anc freight trains which took place Friday afternoon near the Pittsburg and Arizona shaft at a point where the Lowell track connects with the main line
 The trainmen generally believe that the ore train with Engineer Gray at the throttle was running away when it collided with the engine of the freight train. It was going at a rate of about twenty-five miles an hour, and was beyond control.
 The Fl Paso and Southwestern is now hard pressed for engines with which to handle it's freight and pas senger business. The engines that are now in comission are working night and day to keep up with the work. The company now has six of it's biggest engines in the repair shops all of them having been damaged in wrecks.
 The wreck Friday resulted in about as much damage 10 the engines as any of the three wrecks that have Oc- cured in the past few days The front ends of both are badly battered in. and the cab of No : is more like scrap iron than the cab of an engine.
 lt was learned yesterday that the wreck of Friday afternoon developed a hero in the person of Engineer Joe Huber of No. g. Instead of jumping from his cab as stated. he stayed by the throttle and was on his seat when the crash came. He had to be assist. ed from his position.
 When Engineer Huber saw that a wreck could not be prevented he yell ed 10 Fireman A. J. Ramsey to jump anu save HILHSciI. hdmS1y gOt out or the cab just in time to save him. self from being mixed up in the coli. sion. He struck the ground on his feet and escaped even so much as a sprained ankle.
 When Huber saw the other engine approaching and only about 100 yards away he threw on the reverse lever and applied the air. He succeeded in bringing his engine almost to a sand stlll before the nose of No. ' poked into 1t with great violence.
 When Huber threw the reverse lever. his leg was caught between the bar and the seatbox He was pinned in tight, but could have escaped bv throwing the lever ahead. and sending his engine forward to meet the an- preaching ore train. Instead of doing that he decided to stay with his en- zine.
 When the trains came to a stop the crews of both men at once began to search for Engineer Huber. They found him on the seat covered with coal and dirt. They helped out of the cab and to the ground. His only in- Juries were bruised sfpulder. and swelling on the head, which was caus- ed by his head striking the water glass.