The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-06
+! Climbs Outside Cab While
Pennsy Train Is Running
Sixty Miles an Hour, and
Escapes Death.
FIREMAN JUMPS AND
Is PAINFULLY HURT.
Rather Than Face Death in
The Seething Engine Cab,
Fred Arm Leaps and Is
Found Later Unconscious.

This morning Panhandle passenger
a. M, was running between Straughns
Station and Dublin. a pretty stretch
OF track, at the rate of about sixty
miles an hour. Engineer Frank Mar
tin, hand on throttle and head out of
the cab window gazing intently to-
ward, the sky line, was ''jockeying"
his steel monster to it's utmost speed.
Standing in the cab Fireman Fred Arm
was just about to open the door of the
fire box to feed the big engine it's ra-
,tion of coal.
Suddenly, like a bolt from a blue
SKY, there came a crash and instan-
taneously flames from the fire box,
liberated by the blowing out of a flue
plug, were licking their way about the
fcab and back into the tender. Arm,
rwhen the explosion came, was envel-
oped in the frey blast. To remain in
sthe cab was certain death for him To
Jump from the cab was probable
ldeath. Instantly he plunged out of the
cab and was carried before the wind
Rs though his sturdy form was no
more substantial than a vagrant leaf
Martin was not exposed to the red
ftongued blast as he sat on his bench
fat the side of the cab. but so rapidly
ibid the flames spread that he realized
1t would be impossible for him to
remain at his post, so he shut down
THE throttle and, without having time
Ito apply the brakes, climbed out the
an oi {t,1 ~
board. There he remained. frantical-
tly holding on to his precarious posi-
Ition, until the blazing monster came
to stop, three miles distant from the
scene of the accident
Passengers Unaware.
While these Microscopic incidents
were taking place other members of
the train crew and the passengers
were In ignorance of what was taking
place in the engine cab. When the
engine finally stopped trainmen drop
ped Off the cars and hurried to the
engine. There they saw Martin, trem-
bling and pale-faced. standing by his
engine which was fiercely blazing. So
fierce was the fire that some of the
coal In the tender was burning. Fol
lowing the trainmen came the passen-
gers. To the crowd Martin hurriedly
explained the details of the accident
hhen rescue party went in search
OF Arm. They foundd him prone on
his back, arms outstreached and ewes
closed. His face and arms were badly
burned but he was still breathing.
While first aid applications were
being administered to the stricken
fireman the work of extinguishing the
burning engine was being successfully
undertaken. Arm was placed in a car
and the train was hauled into Cam
bridge City by the badly crippled en-.
,gine. A new engine was attached to
the train there. On arriving in this
city Arm was removed to the Reid
memorial hospital. He will live. In
fact, remarkable as it may seem. he
did not sustain any serious injuries
HE is quite badly burned about the
race and arms but his only other in
Jury is dislocated shoulder.
Railroad men state that the acci.
dent that occurred on the engine of
train No. Is this morning was of a
most unusual nature. Some railroad
ers state that never in their expert.
ence have they heard of a similar ac.
Cident.