Show Engineer Ba Battles Fire Saves Train POPLAR BLUFF Mo April 20 P iP Sticking to his lila throttle in the face of oC gasoline lne flames En Engineer er Charles Leadbetter brought the St. St Louis Louis- bound Texan a 1 Missouri Pacific train to a stop top today and then fell unconscious from his sent seat critically burned The passengers were un harmed I The locomotive v struck an oil truck near M Moark ark Mo killing the driver and md throwing gasoline a olinc over the speeding locomotive Fireman E. E E. E Hurt was killed when he leaped from the thc cab The engineer brought the train to a stop about three quarters of a mile from the scene of oC the crash I The Texan was trying to makeup make makeup up lost time when it struck the truck driven by Kip Nelson Corning Ark at a grade crossing I est |