| Show I INTERESTING CASE OASE CASES CASEIN S IN RAILROADING Regarding Air Brakes Headlights and Distances In Trains AN OPINION DY BY AN EX EXPERT 11 lel ed Story of the hue lerent iii Olen II iii Ue to lu a Shed C ue J P nays flays ot of St 61 Luis Louis Q a young oung mAn thirty year 1 of at but on one who h has forged a ahead In railroad matters I Is lit In thIs el cIty breaking the journey through to Sn San l Francisco where he II is going t to take lake a position lun un on time South era rn For or seven Nun ers hays Was an engineer on time the Wabash during hl his spare pre moments lie he has haa turned hi his at to patenting numerous 1118 along among which Is a te red vater oter strainer which h hiss bon been adopted by Ih the ton Ion JI lie is Ie also W as an sit m upon matters pertaining to 10 mi rail with Ih time result that Ihal hI ims Writes trum rout time to 10 tm time artI articles to 10 tn amid other perIodicals At t th the tune of the tue trial ot of the Uli ot of vs Short LIn In him the Ie 11 dIstrIct court ut itt week hays nys happened to 10 be In tIme the Junction CI City and I ma the ole hour Wil Wk cah calmed UI upon to expert testimony In tt the case with result that time the railroad won von II caul ut of morn i ton mor Ing the engineer expressed him tem lt or o time that time he case Just upon sues one of at grot great interest t to every Ir engineer In the land for tur It Io how fur arm an miser could see seu with tin on ordinary coal 01 oil headlight arid In what distance he could stop his train upon Instantly ap plying hii brakes In n speaking out about the cUle case ho he said Mattison wal Was the railroad to recover 1600 damages for tor the loss Iou ot of 3 39 sheep but the railroad thought that the bi bill was a a Itle little too steep Bleep so they lef loft It to a Jury ot of I It that about a Year al au Oregon Shun Line freight 1 train ln U ius going iowa down I a slight grade ot of about abouL 3 30 feet to 10 the tho le runnIng grale nt at time the rate of 25 mies miles lr per hour The train consisted of 17 loaded freight all with broel brakes ni hen within a tOI tow ot of Olden Ogden a 1 flock ot of Ji In number were er either being driven or hB onto onlo time the track at 01 Q a rad road This happened at 2 In iii the morning It was I a clear starry night a a frost but bUL no snow on time the round ground TIle saw the sheep at the distance 1 or of 00 feet teet from the Iho crossing and immediately applied hula hIs air when he got stopped ar lila his engine stood just exactly 1 13 car or feet teet from the crossing ur or 79 feet from where hl lie law saw the sheep ad and applied time the air brakes which lS an emergency lI of the brakes brakel which causes theta to oct act In instantaneously throughout time he entire train Now ow this engineer on Ihl the lOOkout and did II m 1 hIs hilt pow power Ier er to 10 awn avert the Iho accident hut but time the hp were killed Jut just the same There stat Ins lots 1015 ot of conflicting tech test mony during the trial so much 10 so that the jur jury which Was composed for tor the part or of farmers did not knol know what to believe One engineer named ClerIc or at least he to name be on an experienced engineer got goL UI tip on thu witness Stand and swore that thaL he could IC see wih with a coal 01 oil out on an engine DO 1100 feet teel and could stop atop n a train ot of equIpped with air brakes s going ot at the rate of miles nn an hour In feet 3 teet Several other engineers und and testified and mixed time the timing thing UI In ingreet greet rat shape Finally I it wal was decided uJ to get unbiased testimony from a 0 man who was a stranger and no ax to grind with an shy of time th parties to 10 time the cult After telegraphing al all over the country In regard to myself I wal was final ly Iy approached und anti asked to tD go on Ihn tim witness Moud as un an expert Ia I wn vent t there thero an and time the attorneys had me In their hands hondl for tor over oer tour four hour hours One ot of them hud had two larSe large air brake books from whIch hi Ime would tr fire al all kinds of questions at me at short order I 1 must s say that I time the and WI we hind a good time all around 1 goo al arund To o cut time the flatter short time the exam W was S sifted down to 10 the tho matter of at time the length In which a heavy hC trel freight ht train Iraln could b be stopped Ond nd the die tance an engineer r could distinguish tub b jetA by time light of a headlight On the rl queston question after catchy queries I 1 endeavored tu to convince th the jury that Ihal It would take tuly fully a JUl tet feet under the conditions as set let forth In the trial In whIch to slop atop I a train ot of seventeen loaded ors cars Resorting to time testimony of Clark to time the effect that a train could be stopped In eret feet teet the judge had to rap for tor order S when I insisted that time the only condi under which I It would be to stop a 0 trin train running at mies miles an hour In that distance would b be with a stone wol stall or a sand bank Then time matter of mate headlights reo re aU with time result that r I that thai with a lage large Style alyle M 1 M Huck wih n a reflector In go good condition that Ihal It might be O possible tn 0 a little littleover over oer feet teet with I a lima small II lIuch as al Is manufactured b by the Ihl VII u ml reflector In good eon con dilion one could rould see He Aboul between antI and lId feet With an electric you could coul lin an ob Jelt jeet on the track at L the distance of fully tuly hAlt half a mile which would Lie give a aman aman man time to top stop with a proper equipped train ot of air brakes In ordin aT cases After Atler hearing m my testimony the ease laRe rested sted and went to time Jury the nut next they with the result that the Ore Oreon on Short Line won on out |
