Show V S3 MOSES LIFE BUT y SAVES HUNDREDS TUNNEL TRACK WALKER OF NEW YORK CENTRAL WINS GLORY IN HIS DEATH f NEWS KEPT FROM DYING WIFE Tommy Ryan a Humble Railroad Em ploye Ground to Pieces Under Wheels While Performing His Duty New YorkA few laboring men I dropped around to Tommy Ryans houso on West Fortyninth street to help pack up and move They took their halo off In the dark hall below and walked up tho stairs with mufttdd foot In the flout loom a neighbors daughter was trying to amuso two protty babloa one four and tho other two years old Tom Han big hearty goodnatured Tom who loved his wife and children was not there Ho was burled and his two babies were cared for at tho homo of a neighbor whllo his friends followed fol-lowed him to tho gravd Tho children do not know ho Is dead Neither does < his wife who Is nick unto death III a hospital where for four weeks she has been battling with typhoid fever She thinks Hint she is so nick that the nurses will not let her BOO overt her husband And no one not even tho hospital physicians have yet dared take the responsibility of lotting her know tho truth This story should interest those persons per-sons who took tho 9 p m local train for Wcstchester county from tho Grand Central Their train went safely safe-ly through the tunnel carrying them to their waiting families in the suburbs but they never know why They didnt even know that an they passed tho signal lamp at Eighty sixth street in fiafety their train had swept over the body of the man who had saved them Thomas Ryan hail been married about n dozen yoars His oldest child t t a LT I I I 1 The Next Instant the Train Hit Him had died and six months ago to give his wife and the remaining children the homo he wished ho took the hazardous haz-ardous position of lamp man in tho Now York Central tunnel Ho was a sober industrious man six feet in his stockings and perfectly healthy Hie day began at 6 p m and ended at 7 a m and it was his duty to patrol tho tunnel and keep tho lamps burning on the signal towers Two weeks ago his wife was taken 111 with typhoid > fever and grew rapidly rap-Idly worse Ho told his fellowwork ers he feared his wife would dlo before be-fore morning Nevertheless he set 4 about his task of seeing that the lamps t wore all right so that the passengers hurrying homo would pass in safety At 9 p m he saw that tho distance signal lamp on the outbound track three was smoky lIe remembered that several accidents costing human lives had happened because of smoky lamps Ho ran across the tracks dodging a down train and reached up for the signal lamp With his pocket handkerchief handker-chief ho rubbed tho chimney bright and turned down tho wick a little As ho did this the lamp swung around In answer to the signal tower man cautioning cau-tioning the up train to go slow A down train camo tearing through the tunnel making a great noise and drowning the nolso of the approach of a train In tho opposite direction Then ho stepped down on tho track + conscious that he had probably saved an accidentand the next instant the him train hit 1 The engineer with his eyes on the signal as was his duty did not sea the shadow that flickered for an In Blunt under the forward wheels But the trackwalkers parsing a few moments 1 mo-ments after found the crumpled mass under tho light of their lanterns t They found the handkerchief with tho Viva lampblack on it and saw tho finger marks ot tho man on the signal lamp r chimney and they understood The case was reported to tho police and entered on tho station house blotter < But it was just a man killed in tho tunnela trackwalker or a tampman It was not till days after that a stray word dropped by a trackwalkqf revealed re-vealed that big Tom Ryan JiIlU gty n his lIfo to send a trainload of commuters com-muters home in safety 1 ± c f |