Show I Fireman Opens Valves to Prevent Boiler Blast i PLAINFIELD N. N J. J July 12 AP While two broken drivIng rods were tearing up the roadbed a fireman fireman fire fire- man of a Baltimore C Ohio locomotive tive today climbed to the top of the engine and released the exhaust valves to prevent an explosion should the careening locomotive leave the rails The westbound express w- w w t t w w- w eling more than forty mild an hour when the rods snapped near the Plainfield station Engineer Mark MarIe MarkS S S. S Goodright applied air brakes but they did not function he said later A bushing flung from the crippled 1 engine struck the upright of a small passenger shelter and caused it to collapse Edgar Smith Plainfield who was vas sitting In the shelter was unhurt Arthur Bien fireman of the engine finding the engine con S tinned to run madly on under its momentum feared that the boiler would explode if it left the rails He clImbed to the top of the locomotive loco loco- motive and clung there amid Clouds of steam while he emptied d the boilers through the valves Half a amile amile mile from where the rods broke the train stopped It was only then that passengers learned what had happened I o T |