Coalville Times | 1902-09-12 | Page 2 | Engine Ran into the Ray

Knalne Haa Into Ihe liar. An extra awltch engine of the South rn 1'aclhc company, while atandlug beneath the eoal bunkers In tha Weat Oaklaod, Cel., yarda walling for a theege of creiva, waa bumped luto by I freight train and Ihe throttle thrown pen, Tha locomotive plunged for ard Inatantly and began a runaway trip through a network of hundreda of atla tracka end headed for tha Weal lalasa, Mole, where a dosea Iralt-JP) and g.b.NI passengers from dan Kranelin co were walling lu be carried overland to local points. Ily a fortunate chance tlia tower man, knowing the engine was not uiBnned, threw the runaway onto an extreme outside track, thtia averting a collision with the standing trains or preventing Hie Iron uionsler from ersshiog through Ihe waiting moms at Hie ferry dc-tol, crowded with II ii inn ti he I n us. The engine attained a speed of lliit ty-lirc milca an hour before be-fore It plunged off the eud of the truck luto the waters of Hie bay, making a leap of fully llilrly feet The huge inonntor now lien hurled under twenty feet of water.