Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1874-11-19 | Page 1 | Forty Miles an Hour to Death |

Type	issue
Date	1874-11-19
Paper	Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Forty Miles an Hour to Death
Type	death
Date	1874-11-19
Paper	Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show FORTY MILES AN HOUR TO DEATH. Men of true manly grit are not to be found every day; but one of this kind died at his post,in Cheyenne, the other day. He was an engineer on the Union Pacific railroad. Coming west, bringing tho passenger train, he was suddenly takeu seriously ill, but, rather than shrink from duty, he increased the speed of the engine to forty miles an hour, and reached Cheyenne ahead of time. As the monster machine came to a halt, and the engineer who was to relieve him stepped into the pilot house, ho said, faintly: " Take tho engine; I'm ready to tiie now I " and in live seconds he was a corpse. Tho Union Pacific company oucht to erf ct a monument over that engineer. Denver Jv ir.t.
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