The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-03-07

the Union Pacific, was killed at Elm
Creek the last Tuesday in February.
in trying to start an extra heavy
freight train, one of the cylinder
heads blew out. He had got down
and disconnected that side of the en-
gine, and in trying to get the other
side off center, it had gathered steam,
such force as to crush his right side
in frightful manner. He was as
sisted from his engine and taken to
the depot, where medical assistance
was given. He expressed himself as
confident his injuries would prove
fatal, as he realized his intestines
We're ruptured or he was bleeding in
ternally. When the accident hap
pened they we're carrying two hun
Cred and fifty pounds of steam, and
the lever came back with fearful force,
catching him diagonally across the
lower part of the bowels. on the right
side. He suffered great. pain, but was
able, with assistance, to walk to his
train, which he took to Omaha, due
a. 1:4O am Thompson died before
the train reached Omaha.
J. J. Kurtz, Burlington engineer
living at 814 North Thirteenth street
Lincoln, died at his home about mid
night of February 90 from drinking
cresolene. Mr. Kurtz came in from
Ravenna that night and not feeling
we'll when ne returned home he went
into his bedroom to take a dose Of
medicine. Mrs. Kurtz had been burn
ing cresolent to fumigate the house.
and by mistake her husband got hold
of the bottle containing the highly
Loisonous mixture. Medical aid was
summoned but nothing would avail to
Save his life. There can he no doubt
that death was due to mistake. Mr..
Kurtz's home life was happy, and he
had no cares nor worries save those
incident to man who is the head of
a family. He left wife and two chill.
dren. Mr.. Kurtz was born in 1872
and was for many years in the en-
pioy of the Burlington. He was a
f.,vorite among his fellow employees
and his untimely death is deeply
mourned.
Henry McCarn is expecting a visit
from his brother 'Lum" McCarn, who
lives at Joplin, Mo. "Lum" McCarn
was formerly a Nebraska newspaper
rlan. He went to Joplin about the
time the zinc industry of that section
began booming and invested what lit
| tie money he had in the Joplin
Globe. He put about thirty years
work into it in seven or eight years
ard made the Globe one of the best
Gaily newspapers in the southwest,
lar none. Then his health failed and
he sold out. He has lot Of friends
in newspaper circles in Nebraska, and
they'll show him good time if ne
gives them chance.
| A. little item In the Thirty Years
!
Journal Monday morning recalled to
mind that twenty years ago this
month the Burlington engineers were;
eli strike, and there were warm times
in this Burlington territory. The
Journals item calls little memory
OF that famous struggle. Twenty
years ago the editor of The Wage
worker was foreman OF weekly pa.
per published in a Nebraska town on
the Burlington lines. Shortly afte.
the road had started trains to NOV
ing with threshing machine engineers
and firemen of gasoline engines
a freight train pulled into the writer's
town and "died" on the "scabby's
hands because he couldn't work tho
injector. He was used to the old
fashioned pump of a stationary en-
gine. The station agent wanted tc
help out so he tried both the town
elevators in an effort to find an en-
gineer who could start an injector
But both elevators had pumps. Final
L. some one told the agent that the
office where the writer worked had
ar engine with an injector, so up he
came. The writer, who knew just
enough about an engine to start and
stop it, did happen to know how the
i injector worked. But the boss was
/ gone, SO the writer professed ignor.
ance. But there was a tourist
printer" in the shop who had drilled
i,l the day before. He heard the con.
versation and interrupted with the re
| mark:
why, | can start the injector.