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Show NEVCR COME SINQLY. A Common CdrHTttlllou Among Estnr About OollUtiMtt. Of tho superstition of sailors, Oslicr-folk Oslicr-folk uud otlici-H wo have alt heard, but that such a dUtlngiililicd characteristic characteris-tic bhould havo attached Itself to railway rail-way men would not nppoar to bo jren-erally jren-erally known. It nuvors souiowlmtof tho auomulous that Mich n preeminently preemi-nently practical class of men should bo tho victims of crodiillty rogardlnff tho supornatural. 'Such, horrover, is the case, says n writer In tho London Tld-llttn. Tld-llttn. I rccontly lind occasion to Interview n prominent railway ofllclal, and In the cotirso of tho conversation that ensued that Kcnttcmnn lueldontnlly alluded to two collision which had lately occurred oc-curred In thn nu'i;hborhood, follotvlni; up bin rumarlis-withlhottntiounccuiciit that the local men would bo In n btuto of subdued excitement mid "flutry" till a third mishap took place. Such Is tho superstition of tho railway man, Upon vxprt'HHlnj; considerable astonishment astonish-ment I was assured that thU kind nf thiiifr wns notorioun nmonir railway men in general, nnd In this particular Instance, It was known that tlioelr-cumfitaiieeH tlioelr-cumfitaiieeH of tho two previous accidents acci-dents wcro tho chief toplei among1 tho workmen in nil department, who wcro also counting on tlio poKslhllltlcsof a third diEnstcr. Ciirloiialy enoiili n touch of realism ns lent to tho Itlfor-uiation Itlfor-uiation Just Imparted by tho explanation explana-tion that tho M'coud of tlio two collisions colli-sions referred to was duo to tho driver of ono of tlio ciiRlnes a rellnblo servant, serv-ant, noted for his nlcrtnef.s nud precision, preci-sion, with an honornblo n-eord with somo forty years' fwrvico who boltifr, it was believed, no disturbed over tho "onions" of tho first occurrencu nnd so enftrusted with what ho felt would bp two other cntastrophos that ho committed com-mitted tho (.light error of Judgment Which caused his locomotive to crash into another coming' In nil opposlto di rection. Tho statement is f-ivoii as tho conviction of ono who spoilt upward of a quarter of a century among railway men of nil classes, and who linn known tho driver alluded to for a long period of years. So caino about a second collision. col-lision. .Surely superstition could go no further thnn thin. Hut hero Isu tragic Hoqucl a sequel which, unfortunately, will, In all probability, do much to strengthen tho reprehensible beliefs of tliesu men. Two days nf tor tlio Interview In-terview nbovo mentioned, within fifteen fif-teen minutes' drlvo from tho sceno of tho second collision, nn express mall failed to tnko tho points, u portion of the train with the tendcrof tho cngltio wns violently thrown across tho rails and ono stoker hilled. This is whnt tho railway men will term their "third mishap." "Thero's tho third," they sny, nnd now perhaps they will breathe freely for a season. |