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Show i the fireman lay stunned on the track, the train rolled on with no guiding hand at the throttle. The train had covered two miles when Engineer Shoemaker climbed back into the cab and braved the steam long enough; to stop the engine. In so doing his face and hands were badly scalded. Sherwood Was not dangerously hurt and despite some serious bruises, had started to walk to Herkimer when relief met him. RODE TWO MILES ON TOP OF "WILD" ENGINE UTICA, March 15. The blowing out of the water bar of the locomotive hauling train No. 27, the American Express flier, as the train was passing Herkimer, hurled William Sherwood, the fireman, from the cab. The train aped on at a forty-flve-mile-an-hour clip. The steam escaped with such force and volume that the engineer, Robert Shoemaker, had to climb to the roof of the engine for safety. While the engineer rode on the top of the cab and |