Show chal M HIS UFE LIFE TO sal OTHERS heroism of an engineer prevents fearful loss of life but results in his undoing train was running at the rate of F orty forty miles an hour when the accident occurred as the result of an open switch topeka ran kan santa fe passenger saenger pi train no 3 westbound tho the california limited went into the ditch at usa lisa twelve miles west of here thursday morning the engineer was waa hilled and several passengers injured the cause of the wreck iswald la said to have been an open switch I 1 tho the train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour when the wreck occurred henry rossiter Roas lter ohp engineer stayed in the cab and applied the air brakes and thus saved the train from a much more wreck but the act cost the brave eng engineer his life when dragged from the cab after the wreck every bone in RoB Ros body was waa broken and ho be was badly mangled the engine left the rails and turned over in the ditch to the left of the track the baggage car was waa dragged after the engine and turned halfway half way across the track the buffet car was avam derailed rind and torn from its trucks by the shock of the wreck at the point of the derailment there was a ditch on both sides of the track two hundred feet of the track was torn up tip |