Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-05-27 | Page 1 | Engineer of Limited Dies at Throttle

ENGINEER OF LIMITED DIES AT THROTTLE t j 2 Chicago May In G C a dead man manat I. I at the throttle the time p premier limited Milwaukee ulee and c. c train of or the Chicago Hew He tho time dangerous dangerous dan dan- 1 4 Eta St P Paul ul railroad past Interlocking switch at Byron ill au and aud as b by u a miracle the hundreds un re s of passengers saved The engineer was v Albert Ibert of ol Chicago who ho ha had been in tho ho service of i the thc roa road for tor or 20 Ii 5 years The train was as bearing down on Davis ts Junction at nt a rate of ot 70 10 miles an hour At t Byron Broll where the time tracks cross the tha right of wa way of or another line lIno tho the train 1 always slows up t Michael Nash the fireman noticed with a su sudden shock chock that the tho train was tram flying the maze of tracks payIng pay pay- lug Ing no mio attention to the thc signals As the thu 1 last laet car of the train cleared the last i truck track another train came caine thundering across with tho time path clear cleared b by twi Vl t con seconds 5 Nash Nuth sprang forward an ani 4 found the time old engineer lying on th tin fr of his hilS cab dead ea I f. f sash stopped the train an and the bod was WUI lifted to tho hi ground Cau hat succumbed to a 0 hemorrhage of ot th thi brain bruin F