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Show SOUNDED HIS DEATHKNELL Engineer Held the Whistle Cord as Machine Went Over Bank. ELIZABETH. N. J., April 10. Owing to the spreading of the rails, a drill engine en-gine on the Central railroad of New-Jersey New-Jersey left the track and plunged down a twenty-foot embankment into a pond today. The engineer and fireman and a brakeman were buried under the engine. en-gine. The brakeman was taken out alive, but died soon after he had been taken to a hospital. All the vfctims were married and had families. They were horribly scalded. When the engine went over the embankment. em-bankment. Engineer Hobarth had hold of the whistle cord, and the whistle continued to sound until either the engineer en-gineer was dead or the steam exhausted. |