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Show II Is Unlucky Friday. Elias A. Sullivan, nicknamed by friends "Yank" Sullivan, who bravely met death In the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Osceola, Os-ceola, was one of the best known engineers on the road. "Yank" firmly believed in all the peculiar superstitions to which railroaders as a class pin faith. Two months before his fatal wreck be took his engine, No. 475, the largest on the road, out of the repair shops. On h is first trip a wreck occurred on the eastern division. This cemented his half hearted faith in an unlucky Friday. His engine needed repairs re-pairs shortly afterward, and was ready for the road again on tho Friday previous to the night of his death ride. This time "Yank" positively refused to go out, saying say-ing an accident was sure to follow. His fears were laughed to scorn bv thn nun collected iu the roundhouse, aud Sullivan took the engine. That his words were prophetic proved too true, and it would be impossible now to gtt an engineer to take his engine out of the Glenwood shops on Friday. |