Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-28

was killed last night by an express
train at Reading. is expected this
afternoon at the home of his father,
D. Is. Hartman, 115 South Fourteenth
street, and the funeral will take place
thursday at Hanover, where services
VIII be conducted at st. Joseph's Cath
Ollie church. The funeral party will
leave here tomorrow evening.
Hartman was 22 years of age. He
was a brakeman on a Reading rail-
road freight extra which stopped last
night at the coal dock in the Reading
yard at Reading to allow the Pottsville
express to pass. 1t was S:42 when
the passenger train went by, and a
little later Hartman was found life
less. From the nature of the injuries,
1t is supposed death was almost in
slant.
The freight extra bound for Har-
risburg from Allentown hauled by
engine No. 1925 and in charge of Con-
ductor j. Bowers was held on q siding
TO allow the Pottsville express leaving
TINS city at ga. o'clock to pass. Har-
man went forward to throw the switch
AFTER the express would pass, to al
low his train to proceed. When after
a long period, no signal was flashed
TO the crew of the waiting freight,
Conductor Bowers investigated. He
found Hartman unconscious and badly
injured, beside the switch. A shifter
rushed him to the station preparatory
to sending him to the hospital but he
died before the station was reached.
There are no known witnesses. 1t is
presumed that Hartman waited on the
main line rae for the passing of the
express and became dazed. There are
more than a dozen racks at this point
in the Reading yard. Conductor NJ.
M. Godfrey and Engineer T. Halahan
were in charge of the express.
Investigation OF the injuries to the
young man revealed, besides the Sc
we're Internal injuries, a fracture of
the ppe jaw, and two gashes in
the head, one over the right eye and
one over the right ear.
Enginemen Ask For Time.-Media-
ton in the controversy between the
ninety-eight Western railroads and
their engineers and firemen scored a
victory at Chicago yesterday, when
the men agreed to continue negotia-
tions. July &c had been set by the
men as the final date for conferences
The members of the board of media
ton met yesterday with the general
managers committee of their railroads
and were ready to confer with the
men, when they received a notice ask
ihS d udS ) TO let the
engincmen consider recent proposals.
The mediation board has given up
hopes for a direct settlement and now
is directing every effort to arrange ar
bitration.
Ready For n. c. Lcase.-While the
case OF the minority stockholders of
teh Northern Central Railway against
the lease of the road to the Pennsyl-
vania is not yet out of the courts,
Judge Knapp, before whom the hear
ing were begun about two weeks ago
in Baltimore, has decided hat the
lease could be proceeded with and eX-
ecuted pending a continuance of the
plaintiffs case. The hearings were
then adjourned until September.
Judge Knapp is now considering a
new petition filed by the minority
stockholders, giving them the right to
make the president and directors of
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad defendant
parties to any further proceedings to
have the lease declared void. The
petition also includes the unusual plea
that the dissenting stockholders shall
! participate in the distribution of the
40 per cent. stock dividend, the 10
per cent. cash dividend just declared
and the accrued s per cent. annual
dividends to be paid or the stock divi-
dend.