Show experience of engineers alic other night when the western express arrived nl alic street station from new york engineer Vande gritt discovered blood trickling down tho spokes of alio llio cowcatcher cow catcher iio knew somo deadly work had been done but was at 1 loss to tell when and it hd lie told harry tho of tho train what lio had and immediately word was telegraphed all abc line 0 o kiako n for any who might have akon struck by a train shirlly after night the dand body of ii man wn s found near station alio head crushed in in the the conductor and tho had gono to their homo conductor harry told a fellow conductor alic day that lio hid passed n sleepless night and tho engineer reported a similar experience an old engineer said to a press reporter tho oilier day public taking them collectively think eliat an engineer is a hardhearted hard hearted anil eliat ho thinks no more of over 1 human being than ho docs of killing a cow or a hog ive hoard people KIV eliat we gecomo hardened toil and dont it a bit but n mistake and a very grave ono I 1 remember killing a bior a ay iy ats and starts I 1 used to havo alio dinou hurri blo nightmares that worn ed inor lil man one night continued alio old engineer as lie liis of tobacco 1 I had a horrible dream eliat was an awful night my ifo woke nio up I 1 had my liand on alio foot i all of the bed just as if I 1 hid hold alic throttle anil alio beads of acio standing out all over my face my wife told mu liow I 1 had yelled for cods sak jump and liow it had wakened glicr and then she sprang out of bed shaking with auar ami alien she shook mo and 1 saw where I 1 wa I 1 told dream ita a moan thing to accuse us of not minding ailline kil linE people said alio engineer as lio toola lus oil can and started to oil his engine not long ago edward knowles stood examining liis engine in the stroad sla liou lie biad just brought tho awl train from jersey city there was a busy scene all about him two southern and two western trains were standing in alio llio station it was just four in alio morning ami a very slurp biting chilly dawn baggage loiters and men laden wilh great bundles of philadelphia morning papers arc h from alio pi ess were hurrying to alic train the electric light was spitting and hissing and casting weird fantastical shapes ami shadows about tho engineer who stood apparently patently ly gazing al nothing tho press reporter opened conversation engineer knowles Knowl cs and after a good deal ot talk lie said as lio leaned forward with one fool on tho luib of a driving wheel ive been running for ten years and never met a until hero a hort timo ago and then seemed to come all at once I 1 killed an old at junction day he wa crossing alie track by lio in his old wagon I 1 think lio must have been for lie paid no ii to alic alii alo when I 1 blew anil of course lie was killed tho old fellow waa well known in trenton then I 1 struck a man over in the meadows and light on top of that I 1 killed a man at newark engineer out in the west philadelphia yard etolil ho reporter lio knew ot a few instances where engineers biad bonu crazy from killing people with s 1 I knew a poor fellow said the engineer alio alic new jersey ho killed a woman up by clinton one night and that I 1 heard liviu toll lie train master smith at elizabeth all about it HB to grow ini intine ine light there ami biad a queer look in hi eyo A week after eliat lie was put in n strait jacket analius and lius in an insane asylum lo daiy diy nothing a maniac and aliat hip nenod nearly fifteen years ago philadelphia press |