Show SIXTY MilES AN I hOWe HOUR DRiVER i iA A CHICAGO May 2 27 The The The overland o fastest train of or tho the Chicago o I Milwaukee St. St Paul system ran Monday night at full till speed at sixty sixt miles milts an hour bour over o interlocking switches I and past signals signals' li near Byron Bron Ill with Fn Engineer Albert Gauvin lying dead on tho the cab nb floor and no controlling hand on ont t the tho o throttle The train with a 3 hundred hun hun- dred died passengers aboard narrowly misled cd a l smashup Officials of time railroad yesterday told b w Fireman ireman the star story as ns by Michael t Nash It proved pro a frightful fri t tragedy ro red ha had been n averted as by b a miracle The train left Chicago Chicalo on tho the jour jour- journey journey ney hey to San Franci Francisco o with Gauvin at atthe atthe atthe the throttle in apparent good h health Near Davis Dayis Junction at Byron where the train slows down don to cross ro the right of way war of another mother road roaul Fireman za Nash Nasli h noticed that the thc th train was tras flying ing across S switches nn and t tracks Is at top speed unmindful of adverse sot set rt signals Just as the limited cleared leared the tracks track of the other road a heavy Y train thundered thundered thun thun- dered across on the rear Nash leaped back into the engine cab and discovered Gauvins Gauvin's 5 bod body lying on the tho floor Tho Thu train was stopped au and help called An Au o examination showed tho the engineer n ineer was wa waI I dead as tho the result of hemorrhage of the thc i brain After some somo delay another engineer was obtained and the thc train preceded Gauvin in had been in thc the service fenice of tho the road about t twenty ifs e years |