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Show - - I Pi KiKSiiERL.Ei:. the engineer of the j coal train that ran iulo a puscnger j express on the Alton road, near La- j mont, Illinois, in August last, has just been acq'iittc.1 on an indictment for manslaughter. It will be remembered remem-bered that the coal train start xl to f reach a water station in the face ufj the express and against the positive orders of the train dispatcher. I Fuffenberger's defence was that tils ' watch was an hour alow. Tho j.iry j severely censured the road for employ-1 inj incompetent men, bat ha.! no sugg. st'urji to otTvr in regard to the (t::ii::u1 recklessness that resulted1 in : k;!l::g ar.d maiming a score of hum- i a.i bJngs. Until such men as this engineer ami hU conductor are reach- j cd and punished by the law, there f can b littie check upon railroad dU-1 asters, which, six times out of eight, j are the result o: negligence or c;uc-lessiK-ss, and occasionally if such complete recklessness aa these men I dLpiayeJ io. disobey: us Lie positive orders of the dispatcher, whose business busi-ness it was to move the trains and whose soie reliance, in handling the j pieces on his chess board, was in the prompt o'-sorvanec of orders by the -men running the various trains. It f m far from ;-.-i agiv i'? or a'.mug r ...tgi,:. t. travelers by r.iii. that ji: : ihea : of their sw;:l flying train may an oh-thiatc b i': '.!" 1 man, in I .... I ' 'ia:v,: o. a:i. ,:.;.:- ira.ii, may t a ii.-l.on t . run f r an itit- rmc- j !:ile p.;.nt aga:ii tic or.b. rs of the 1 ilTjeci up":i wt:e-e cue ;u, I r..il Jhlnos ail saf-.iy h S'.-.pj.-- ! .j... P'ikI. Cen.-unng th-j ;a:!r-...d ,-,,.-n- pany liv.m-r it- enip'-'y. - 'aiil i.:;y ie- lii-e to heed or nbev nj-I'Ts wa a 1 much of a r.iro- a-j ae.,-,ittii:g thr en- ' o;uccr. |