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Show HIS STOKER WASJYING Engineer Was Forced to Stop at Every Station to Fire Up. WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 11. Passenger Pas-senger coming down the Norfolk A Western rallroa-J from Radnor to Wayne had a unique experience. They were riding behird an engine with a . one-man crew. TS? engineer gnll-;d the Iron steed from or.f Hag station to another, when ho wouU stop and firs up. The act was nes'-Hated through his fireman, being stricki-n in the cab. It was first thought he had succumbed to an attack of heart disease, but investigation inves-tigation revealed t!i;t h had been struck with a lump of coal or a- stone thrown through the tab. and his skull fractured. He will die. Few if any of the passenger were aware of what had hapinei. The fireman, fire-man, Walter Baosd.jn, was injured eta point near Radnor. |