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Show SMS TRAIN FROM GOING INTO DITCH i'i:'t'i,iAit Accinn.vr occuits to PAKSHNOKIt HNOINK. I.'iigliiccr Plunked of Urnuil .function Sntcx Denver nml Itlo J rnnde Train I 'nun Disaster Wlicn VnUc Pop nml Kt-nld lllni Plri'innti Holme or MfllHT Madly Kt-nldctl I!) Men III. Knglnccr Joseph IMunkett of Ornnd Junrtlon nnd Fireman J. M Holmes of Helper wcro seriously scalded when n cup from n fountain rIc In th cnb of their engine blew off while the engine wni pulllnic Pnssenger Train Nn. 1C westbound )esterdny Afternoon nt 3 ti'tlock, nt a point five mile went of thin (It) the Ornml Jutietlon News of Tuesday. Engineer Plunkctt. Iillndeil by stcntn which filled the rnli nnd converted It Into n perfect fury of denth. wan unnble to apply tho brake nnd, rrallilnir thnt the trnln would run wild unless stopped, he crawled Imtk over the conl In the tender, nnd slenmlhg like n cloud, dropped Into the hnggngn ear, nnd nuked the hag gnge mnn to pull the nlr brake cord The trnln win stopped and IMunkett, who wan suffering from severe burn nhoiit the hnndi nnd face waji helped from the ear, to the floor of which he hnd mink, after seeing to It thnt the train vn stopped. Plrcmnn Holme rode the conl on the tender with the train running flf-ty-flve, mite nn hour until It plowed down nnd stopped It toolt ulxmt n mile to stop the train after the ale cap blew off. I'a cn sera In the train did not know what hnd happened, heurlnic the report nod tho his of cs-cnplng cs-cnplng itenm. Thoxe who looked out the window saw the entire enslno enveloped en-veloped In steam and runiilntf n fant u eer Then the lirnro nit of Kn Klneer IMunkett stopped tho trnln before be-fore nny further nocldenl happened. The new wns phoned to Ornnd Junction mid nnother ettslne nnd n swlteh enslne were sent to Ithone nnd tho trnln wns started west nfter n dcln) of an hour nnd n half IMunkett nnd Holme were taken to n hospital In Ornnd Junction where their Injuries were attended to. Their burn while ery painful nre not necessarily nec-essarily dmiKerous. The accident wns olio of the most unusual thnt tins happened hap-pened on the Denver nnd Itlo ftrnnde |