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Show NEW DEVICE IS TESTED It Reduces the Danger of - Railroad Wrecks to a Minimum. The practicability of a new device to prevent railroad accidents was demonstrated demon-strated to a party of local railroad bvl-4erlntendents bvl-4erlntendents by William T. Henry of the New York Air Brake company, at the Rio Grande shops yesterday. The device .consists of a deal which is placed in the cab of the engine and connected' by a rod with the wheel 'of the fosward truck. The dial registers the speed of the. train and the distance it has traveled. If the device is set at a certain point where the train is to make a stop It warns the engineer Just before the point is reached and.if he fails to bring the train to a standstill automatically automati-cally Bets the air brakes, stops the train and prevents its being run by the place where it is supposed to stop. The device also warns the engineer of Crossings and bad pieces of roadbed and greatly diminishes the chances of wreck by the negligencejf the engineer. The demonstration proved the nature of the device and It Is probable that the appliance will be given a trial on the Short Line. |