| Show JA HIS LIFE TO SAE heroism of an engineer Pre prevents venti fearful loss of life but results in his undoing train was wa running at the rate of forty miles milea an hour when the accent abc acc gent occurred as the remit of an open switch topeka kan santa fe passenger enget train no 3 westbound the california limited went into the ditch at na usa twelve miles west of here thursday morning the engineer was killed and several veral injured the cause of the wreck la Is said to have been an open switch the train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour when the wrt arck ck occurred henry rossiter Ross lter the engineer stayed in the cab and applied the air brakes and thus saved the train from a a much mole wreck but the act cost the brave engl engi aneer his life when dragged from the cab after the cieck every bone in ROs body was aas broken and he was badly mangled the engine left the rails and turned over la in the ditch to the left ot of the track the baggage car was dragged after uie the engine and turned halfway across the track the buffet car was mas derailed and torn bioni its ita trucks by the shock of the wreck at the point of the derailment there was a ditch on both sides of the track two hundred feet of the track was boin up |
