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Show POOR VENTILATION ENDANGERS A TRAIN Special Cable to The Tribune. H MADRID, Dec. 6. A. strange story was H brought to Corunna by a train which ar- H rived there recently. Tho train entered M the Oural tunnel, but gradually sialic- H cned speed until the train mopped, nnd H then began to run backward. Tho H brakeman, Pablo Garcia, was surprised H that the train did not stop, although he H promptly applied tho brakes. Ho then H proceeded toward tho locomotive, and H found tho driver and stoker both uncon- H sctous, having fallen victims to the dense H sulphurouH fumes within tho tunnel. H it wne a critical moment, becauso inn B passengers wero beginning to feci the H same symptoms of nsphyxln. and a torrl- H bio catastrophe was feared. Garcia then H mounted tho locomotive, and, finding that H there was suflhiont steam pressure, man- H aged to get the train In motion, while H tho driver and fireman were transferred H to a. carrlago nnd attended to. They H wero left at tho next Btatlon, Monforte. H without having rocovered consciousness. H Tho tunnel In question Is nearly two H miles long- |