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Show TAFFYTN BOILERS Train Hands Dumped Molasses Mo-lasses in Water Tank for Engines. WHEELING, W. Va.. Dec. 16. Twenty-five tons of New Orleans molas-. molas-. ses were dumped Into the railroad water station tank at Fair Point. O.. In mistake mis-take for water this morning by a gang of. Italian laborer On account of brought the Baltimore & Ohio-railroad fcak been running water trains to""keep 1hft vater station supplied. The water tsnauled in oil tank cars, and a tank containing molasses got mixed up In the trainr The Italians unloaded this molasses mo-lasses Into the big tank at Fair Point. The engineer at the pumping station did not discover the presence of the molasses mo-lasses for hours, and in the meantime several locomotives stopped and took , on "water." None of them got very far . away until the heat in their boilers began be-gan to make taffy out of the molasses, . and the engines were rendered useless. 'When the fires were let down the sweet and sticky mixture began to congeal. Traffic between Wheeling and the . Holloway terminal was handicapped 'until the mix-up was straightened out. |