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Show BOY'S PRANK CAUSES DEATH. Pulled Open Throttle on Engine and Causes Fatal Runaway. Buffalo, N. Y. A small boy went into the New York Central railroad roundhouse here Tuesday night and climbed into the cab of an engine. He pulled open the throttle and as the engine en-gine started forward he jumped. The locomotive ran wild through the yards at a speed of forty-five miles an hour and crashed head-on into a freight train coming from the opposite direction. direc-tion. The engines met with terrific force. Engineer Fred Ludeke was almost al-most instantly killed and the fireman, William Froelich, was so badly hurt that he died a short time later. |