Logan Republican | 1913-10-23 | Page 2 | Lives of Passengers Saved by Engineer's Presence of Mind

LIVES OF PA88ENGER3 8AVED BY ENGINEER'8 PRESENCE OF MIND La Crosse, Wis , Oct 20 Invest), gation of the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy wreck at Nelson, Wis., Saturday, Sat-urday, in which one man was killed and eighteen wero injured, shows that Engineer M. H. Dorsoy undoubtedly saved the lives of many of his paB-seligers paB-seligers by his prompt action. His train was partly on a siding when the express train nppeared closo by. Thero was not tlmo to pull Into tho siding and to remain whera ho was would have meant that his train wou'd havo crashed Into tho passenger coacherof the express. Dorsey quickly quick-ly reversed his engine, backed onto tho main track with tho engine and baggago car, which had been in the clear, and took upon his locomotive tho shock of the collision with tho express train running sixty miles an hour.