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Show Au Ensinrer's Soperstilion. lias A. Sullivan, nicknamed by friends "YanV." Sullivan, who bravely met death In the Hilllmoro and Ohio wreck recently at Ojccoln, ; wa. one ot the bestknown engineers i on the road. "Yank" firmly believed be-lieved in all the peculiar superstitions supersti-tions to which rallroadcis as a class pin faith. Two months before his fatal wreck he took his engine, Xo. 1 -ITS.lhe largest on tba readout of the repair shops. Qti his trip a wreck occurred on the eastern division. Tills cemented hlihalf-heartcjl faith , in an unlucky Friday. HU engine needed repair shortly afterwards and was ready for the road again on the Friday previous to tlie night of I hU death ride. ThU time "Yank" I positively refused to go out, sayimc I an accident wassure to follow. Ills 1 fears were laughed to scorn by the I men collected in the round-house, and Sullivan took the engine. That his words were prophetic proved too true and It would be Impossible now to get an engineer to take his engine out of Glenwood sliop on Friday. Xr. |
