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Show SAVED TRAIN , FROM WRECK. Engineer's Premonition of Danger Averted Disaster. Hut for a locomotive engineer's premonition pre-monition of Impending dongor, a frightful wreck would have undoubtedly undoubt-edly occurred on tho Chlcngo & Northwestern North-western road, according to Information Informa-tion from Negaunee, Mich. Ono man wns killed as It was, but the fact that many other persons had an extremely close call fiotn a similar fate was not brought out In tho meager reports of tho fatality. A freight train had taken a siding near Ponsaukeo In order to permit the passage of a passongor train, duo In a fmv mlnutos. It was found, how-over, how-over, that tlio siding wns not long enough to penult the train to clear the ma:n lino, nnd tho hc'ad brakemnn was si'nt to ling tho passenger In order or-der that when It nrrlvod the two trains could "saw" by each other. Tho llagmnn had not been gono long when the engineer of tho freight train was seized with dread of nn accident, nud to ease his mind a Second brake-man brake-man was stent after tho first. Thu second liagman had gono only a fow hundred feoi from tho engine when ho net thu passenger coming along at full ipeed. He was successful In stopping It, and climbing on tho locomotive ho Inquired why tho train had not stopped for the flag of his brother brakeman. He was Informed that tho train had not been llagged, nor had the brake-man brake-man been seen. Tho passenger train was backed ujj, and search was mado for tho first brakeman. Ho was soon found, a corpse, lying beside tho track. Froiu an examination mado of, tho remains, It was surmised that ho lay down for a rest and had almost Immediately1 fallen usleep on the track, whoro ho was caught by tho oncoming passenger, passen-ger, scooped up on tho pilot nnd thrown (o ono side. Death must, havo been Instantaneous, as thero was .a largo hole In tho head. ' Tho premonition of Impending peril which had coino over tho englnoor of the freight train proved to havo boon a merciful source of, warning, for a disastrous collision wns" averted. Thu length of tho freight train mado It necessary for part of It to rnmaln standing on tho main lino, unil Into theso cars tho passenger train would havo crashed. |