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Show KNOCKED FROM HIS CAB BY A BROKEN ROD- Train thirty-Bix on the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad left Philadelphia at 7.25 cn Wednesday morning. Its time through to Jersey ciiy is one hour and fif.y-fo r minutes, and the paeeengera are due in New York in two hours. There were five crowded passenger coaches. (Jermantowc juuclion is the only slop. Leaving Gennantown the train passed the small etatious in New Jereey mid whirled tbrovgh Trenton on lime. Ed. Osmond, the engineer. Bat wiih hia band on tho throttle of the engine, steadying ii. but keeping it up to its eixty-five miles au hour. Running Run-ning these fast trains is no boy's play. Only the eldest and most reliable engineers are intrusted with the task. Osmnnd has been fifteen years in the company's eervice, and bus run au engine lor ten yearB. - He was approaching Millstone Junction, about a mile west of New Brunswick, when Osmond felt some thing strike the cab directly beneath him, and the nt-xt iuBtant he w lying prostrate on the engine in front of whore the cab had been. It was knocked in pieces and strewn along the track. The-engine, deprived of hia control, gathered fresh impetus every moment trom its open throttle. Osmond, half btunued, lay for a second till he felt no bones were broken and his grip was secure. There was a burn or two and a scald or t no, bt. t he did not feel them, so grcM was the nervous tension. Altei he bad eufiiciently recovered himaelf he taw what had happened. The heavy connecting rod of tbe driving wheels on Ihe right aide of the engine nad broken, and one end of it swing ing round with tremendous velociiy had hit hia cab with the force of a trip hammer and ktoo'ied it skyward. Slowly and carefully at first, but with increasing confidence Osmond let himself down into biB place. It was tho work of a moment to reverse the engine, and of another to apply the air brakea. The train was at a standstill stand-still before New Brunswick waa fdirly in eight. The fireman, who had witnessed it all, waa in his place on the left aide of hia tender, and ao out of danger of the whirling iron arm; but when the cab was knocked to piecea about his ears he thought all waa over with poor Osmond. He caught the rear edgi oi the tender, let himself quicklj dowD, and took refuge in the bgga. car. The psfctengenj on train thirty t.is little know of their narrow eacupu It is impossible to say what would Imvr been the reeult if Oimond had donf what many other engineers would have done jumped for his own lit'., and left them to their fate. It wa- at, act of quiet heroism in the diecharc of duly H at baa not oten h- tn equaled in the fierce beat of battle. Oamond needed no apoK gy to , Superintendent Baker lor heir; i; three-quarters three-quarters of an bcur Uv : :i ' tram tbirty six on tnat tin r:; '-.. New York Sun. |