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Show DEAD HAND AT THROTTLE. Passenger Train in Tennessee Run by a Corpse. Passengers on an incoming Knox-ville Knox-ville & Ohio railroad train rode several sev-eral miles Sunday afternoon with the hand of a corpse at the throttle of the engine." The train left Buckeye on time, and then through Careyville, the next station. When Engineer A. C. Young ran through the latter town,. Fireman Mattlock knew something was wrong and stepped to the engineer's engi-neer's side of the engine. He found Young dead, and immediately stopped the train. There is a wound in the left side of the engineer's head, and the supposition is thai a piece of stone fell from a high cut through the mountains and killed him instantly. The train run perhaps eight miles after Young was killed. |