Show ws TES COLO mi BIR PRIVATE 0 CONNOR TRAVELS 60 MILES AN HOUR ON FRONT OF ENGINE IS NOW IN THE HOSPITAL soldier loses loc consciousness on perilous perch from exposure to freez ing blasts blast owes owe life to tele tel graph operator baltimore aid between een 12 and onis on 0 clock the other night while most moat were soundly bleeding bleeping Ble beneath extra blankets james 0 lon con nor a private in the twenty sixth coast artillery was hying flying through space at the rate of 60 miles an hour perched upon the cowcatcher of the engine which drew the ohio railroads railroad s express into station at 12 40 at the time mentioned the mercury in the official thermometer at the weather bin buican can registered 15 degrees in many places the ground was waa cov ered with snow enow and ice fee and the air was biting cold at the university hospital 0 connor told his stoby ilia hla experience ac chiding to his own statements was thill ling so BO much to so that he Is not likely to forget it it seems that oconnor 0 had up until last fall been stationed with his corn coin mand inand at rort fort Pl hagler agler in the state of washington not far from seattle last november lie he came east and sanco that time has been in washington D C now 0 connor makes no bones of the fact that he Is not a temperance man the weather being somewhat chilly and feeling the need of a warm ing stimulant he proceeded to fill up about 11 he felt beckless kless and ft was as apparently in that frame of mind when he dlan t care uh ether school kept hept or not having business to attend to in bal th glmore ilore 0 connor decided that he would come avei and look after hla his affairs why that thought should have sti uck him at 11 0 clock at night lie dian didn t e explain but at any rate he be decided to come and come he did when he i cached beached union station at washington the soldier discovered that he lacked the price of transports tran tion there are more ways of travel tag las on a railroad than in a pullman flying through space at the rate of 60 miles an hodr sar car and it occurred to 0 oconnor connor that ho he was just about the youngster who could make the trip on the engine a cowcatcher when therefore the train pulled out he swung up tip on the tha pilot and wedging himself in between the braces which hold the cowcatcher n place he settled down for foi his ride ilde 1 I hadn haan t been there very long said laid 0 connor until I 1 was cold all ovet the wind as the train rushel rushed cut into my face and I 1 pulled tile the cape of mi overcoat avei coat up over my head to protect my ears I 1 guess that Is all that saved them for awhile it was as simply terrible the train rocked and swayed and as it shot around the curves I 1 thought every minute would be my last in a little while I 1 was so cold that I 1 lost consciousness and I 1 knew nothing more until I 1 waked up with a lot of policemen standing over me how I 1 ever managed to hold on to my place I 1 can t imagine it was just ray my luck nothing else 0 connor who abo la is only 20 years old good looking and intelligent ow owes es life no doubt to the telegraph oper ator at laurel who saw him bim as tile the express passed that station at that time line the soldier was unconscious and tho the operator seeing the apparently lifeless f form rot as the he train pass through 0 the reflected rays of a station lamp telegraphed to camden station tint a dead man was on the pilot of the en glue the operator at camden station notified the policeman on that beat and he in turn called up the Weste Trl police station and had bad the ambulance sent seat down donn to take away the body policemen rol leemen and railroad officials gath ered on the platform as the train was coming in and when it stopped all hands rushed to lo the front of the en glue ghie to remove the corpse hauling Ila it out of place thes arti faw cat there was still atall life in the body Restora restoratives tives were applied and to in a little while 0 connor had come around enough to be sent hent to the hospital |