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Show Engineer Saves Lives Of Many By Quick Work HAMILTON, Ont, Dec. 26 u;.l The rapid thought and almost instantaneous action of Engineer B. Burrell and Fireman John Kennedy probably prob-ably saved the lives of many passengers on the crack flier. Maple Leaf, which crashed into an excursion train on a siding at Dundas. Realizing that the express was bound to telescope the holiday train, Burrell applied the brakes throughout the length of the train, and ordered order-ed Kennedy to uncouple the locomotive. The speed and weight of the locomotive opened open-ed up a four-four gap between be-tween the tender and the coaches which were slowed down perceptibly before crashing crash-ing into the wreckage. Railroad men said that if the engine had not been uncoupled, un-coupled, several coaches of the Maple Leaf probably would have buckled, causing additional addi-tional deaths. The locomotive, locomo-tive, which had ripped through the wooden cars of the excursion train, was merely driven a little further into the wreckage by the oncoming on-coming Maple Leaf coaches. |