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Show Two Railroad Wreck a. "About the queerest wreck I was ever In." said a retired brakesman with one arm, "was on the Chesapeake and Ohio, near enterprise, Ky. Wo were coming up a hill with a heavy train when suddenly around a curve enine a box car loaded with hoop poles. The cur had been left on tho siding at Enterprise, En-terprise, presumably without a brake set. and during the night it had been blown on the main truck by the wind. When it hit our engine it broke five I draw bars and broke the train In three parts, but luckily we kept the dismembered dismem-bered train from running away. The whole front of the engino was broken In, but no one was hurt A big bunch of hoop poles was found wedged In the cylinder of the engine. I don't think the cause of tbo wreck was ever discovered, discov-ered, although the agent was discharged dis-charged on account of the wreck." "The oddest sight I ever see," broke in an engineer, "was near Wheeling, where two cam el back engines collided. I was up in the cab running one, when the other train dashed around the curve. We were both running about twelve miles an hour. I was thrown from the cab, alighting on the cab of the rival train. Both the stacks were jammed together, and the two cabi looked liked one. No one wasinjured." Omaha World-Herald. |