| Show U ON WILD CABOOSE HE SAVES A TRAIN CONDUCTOR SWINGS ABOARD AND WARNS ONCOMING FLYER IN NICK OF TIME Denver Col Conductor William McCoy of the Denver Rio Grande load became the hero of a thrilling lido over La Veta Pass tho other morning Hoarding a runaway caboose ca-boose as it passed Walsenburg station sta-tion going at tho rate of 20 miles an hour and gaining momentum every moment ho saved a passenger train from wreck McCoy was In the depot when ho heard the sound of tho approaching car Thinking part of the train which ho had como In on and which ho had left to be switched had broken loose I 1 J iiii S He Was Madly Signaling the OncomIng Oncom-Ing j Train ho ran out and saw tho caboose coming com-ing down the track Quick us thought ho remembered that a passenger train was coming In within a few minutes and that tho flying caboose was on the same track Ho took his life In his hands and swung on tho runaway car Ho tried to put on the brakes but was unablo to Something had given way which accounted for the car breaking loose At the same Instant that ho learned of the brakes failure to work he saw the distant light of tho passenger train coming up the divide In a brief second he had taken the lantern from the rear of the caboose and was madly signaling the oncoming train Engineer Henthorne of the passenger passen-ger train saw the signals stopped his train and began to back up vflth all possible speed Tho wild caboose gained on the en glue as both neared tho junction but the train reached safety In time for a brakeman to jump off and throw tho switch permitting tho caboose to take the Y toward Trinidad On the Y track It soon struck tho heavy grade on Tuna hill and stopped The passengers on the train did not know tho danger until It was all over Then they realized that only tho presence pres-ence of mind of Conductor McCoy and the prompt action of Engineer Hen thorne had prevented what would probably have been a severe disaster |
