Show CONDUCTOR AND BRAKEMAN EN GAGE IN DESPERATE STRUGGLE ON MOVING CARS LATTER ARMED WITH A former hurled to the ground poi beemen see unequal battle shoot at brakeman Bra kemah but he escapes chicago two men fought a desperate hand to band battle on the lop of the lurching cars of a moving freight thain coming into this city the other day one was catalli and hurled to the ground it was an unequal fight one ot the men the conductor of the train was unarmed the other the brakeman was armed with a 1 nite and forth on the tops of the swaying cars they struggled the con ductor fighting with his bare alsta against the weapon of his adversary repeatedly he was stabbed the lurching of the cars threw the combatants from side to side as they struggled but they clung to their in secure foothold for nearly half an hour all the while the train was rumbling on its way toward the city block after block was left behind ahe en gincer and fireman unconscious of the tragedy being enacted on the topa of he cars behind them looked onay fop the signals ahead scores of men early risers on the way to work saw the struggle but their shouts to the were un heard finally the struggle ended the con ductor beaten slipped and tell mid his adversary i bushed him off the top of a car to the ground in falling he narrowly missed rolling under the wheels he was later picked up and hurried to a hospital the physicians declare he Is in a precarious condl alon the train a long freight on the in diana harbor railroad was running OB his adversary pushed him off the car the chicago junction line tracks at west fortieth and hanote streets when the struggle bega the tor fred francis lives in franklin park the brakeman edward bock man lives in chicago bockman escaped but it Is thought he was shot and wounded by two caal railroad policemen he clung to the top of the train and his pursuer were unable to board it james walsh a watchman Is one ol 01 hose who saw the two men in their struggle he recognized francis and I 1 telephoned tor help special policemen joseph finery and charles dark hurried to the railroad tracks in time to see the last of the struggle they could not however stop the train they saw the brakeman in the side and knock him down they say that he then shoved the van squished man off the car the officers opened alre on cock man he fell to the root of the car with a cry the police are now search ing for him francis was found to be stabbed a dozen times in the nead and body one knife thrust penetrated his lung the doctors at the hospital were un able to restore him to consciousness I 1 saw a knife in the hand of the brakeman said patrolman amery he struck again and again at the con ductor francis grabbed the mans wrist and the two clinched they staggered about on op of the sway ing car fell to the roof got up again and fought I 1 expected to see them roll off the car every minute finally the brakeman got free and struck the conductor in the side he fell back ward the brakeman immediately grabbed him and threw him off the fly ing train railroad men say there was an old feud between the combatants |