Show Crazed Engineers Insanity is very frequent among railway rail-way employees Two dramatic illustrations illustra-tions can be mentioned There is living in New Jersey not far from Philadelphia Philadel-phia a man who for many years was the foremost passenger engineer between New York and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania railroad He ran all the specials and host trains and in 10 years never had an accident One nightin the gleam of tho headlight he saw a woman He had only time to see her hands raised and to hear her cry and before he could put his hand upon the lever he felt a jerk under the wheels and knew that all was over Since that night he has never been on an engine For months ho did not sleep and later became practically insane but only on the one point of seeing and hearing the woman his engine killed Now he goes about harmlessly and aimlessly but he has to be kept away from railroads and in his fretful sleep he awakes with cries and paroxysms of horror The other case is that of a man who was conductor of a train on the Camden and Amboy whose train had an accident He came out all right himself but it preyed so upon his mind that one night he left his home and going to the point where the accident occurred threw himself in front of a passing train receiving injuries in-juries from which he died Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times |