The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
WRECK ON N. Y. CENTRAL Gas 0vercame Brave En-
 gineer. DEY0 STUCK TO HIS POST Three Trainmen Succumbcd to Deadly Fumes. 
 Train Ran wnd. Through Harien While Man at Throttle. whe Braved AL Lsy Uncon-
 .cious in Cab.
 
DEY0 STUCK TO HIS POST

New York, Dec 23.--with the throt- tie wide open and the engineer uncon- scious on the floor of the cab. heavy New York Central locomotive drawing sixteen cars laden with stone ran wild through Harlem early on Thursday morning and finally camc to a stand still wrecked, when 1t crashed into 2 locomotive of the Harlem division in the Mott Haven yards.
 Details of the accident became gen- orally known for the drst time last night through friends of the engineer. Elvy Deyo of Poughkeepsie, who is now in Lebanon Hospital. dying from burns and scalds. Three men who jumped from the train in the tunnel were lying unconscious at the track side when Deyo last saw them. What happened to them is matter of contee- ture.
 The accident is said to have been due to lack of ventilation in the tun- nei
 The work train of sixteen cars left the New York Central station after daybreak. It was drawn by gigantic ''Ping-pong' engine. The engine burns hard coal. The top of it's short smoke stack clears the roof of the Park Ave- nue tunnel by only few inches.
 At Fiftieth Street the big engine be- came stilled on a dead centre" En- gineer Deyo tried to get the pistons moving by starting the exhaust. but in spite of his efforts he could not get the big machine to turn a wheel. The fireman and two brakemen in the cab thereby began to cough as the hard coal gas from the locomotive Ire box came pouring down upon them, de- fiected by the reof and walls of the tunnel.
 As the engineer. still working with might and main at the throttie lover to rpaf tf ..a- f& lxf three companions he saw them slowly and painfully crawl down eff the loco- motive cab in the tunnel
 They tried to run back out of reach of the deadly coal gas. but before they had gone q dozen steps fen unconscicus in the ditch. Deyo's train was stalled on the main track. peril to trufiIc, and he dared not leave the cab for a mo- ment.
 Conscious of the danger that he, too, might succumb to the fumes of the coal gas, he wet a big bunch of cotton waste at the tank and then plastered 1t over his mouth and nose But the waste was little protection.
 Deyo was still trying to get the en- zine off the "dead centre" when his head began to whirl. With last ef- fort of consciousness he pulled back the throttle lever. Just then pushing en- zine came up behind and struck the long train and the Impact started the locomotive. The shock knocked Deyo. weak and dizzy. off his balance, and he fell to tho floor of the cab unconscious. With the throttle wide open the loco- motive gathered speed. Deyo's body rested close to the open door of the Ire box. and the flames began to scorch him as they leaped out of the fur- mace.
 All the way through the long Park Avenue tunnel the train flew. The switch was right, and the drawbridss over tho Harlem River was fortunately closed.
 The train dashed into the Mott Haven yard of the New Haven Road. and ran into a light engine on the main track. Both locomotives were wrecked and Deyo was removed unconscious from the debris. r.