Show ASTRA N 7 GE WARNING a 0 an illinois central EnIg engineer ineer is llari idl cf of danger AD AID II 11 I 1 EITHER THEft STAMM AMEZ ha uc hii ill tim time to jiwat mat haie rate 2 to n a Disa tirl I 1 I 1 STANDARD special ciccil 8 r 0 accle service 5 A gentleman who came up from springfield thurs thursday day told ft a remarkable story tj a reporter report r today to day said be the passenger train on the illinois central ce railroad that left springfield II linos s thursday night at 10 had a most miraculous escape from a second chatsworth disaster when about fifty miles from springfield the on engineer gincer was suddenly impressed with a fear that borne some impending danger was near at fit hend bland the tile rate of the s speed iferd was near I 1 thirty bir y in miles iles an hour 3 it the only possible e danger bat that he lie could imagine gine was a L email brid bridge ge a short d distance ahead T the I 1 le conviction ionic tion of danger wan wad BO so great anil impressed him film BO so thoroughly tha that ho be stopped ilia rain train and went 10 i ascertain fiscer tahi if there could possibly ba aay say dangar he ile found that lie its waa was within about feet of the email mail bridge and that it had lad burned almont entirely away the fire was still only a few of the who happened to be awake know of the danger until after workmen had been summoned from gilman and a temporary y bridge constructed the bridge d go was only about twelve feet fee t across 1 ii seems to me it was area a woud wonderful erfal escape and what wha I 1 baa has been haunting me ever since 11 I 1 learned earned the d details t lie Is what told the engineer there was wan death ahead the reporter at coca flirted started out to B BOB so the engineer of the threatened train and found him in in the tile person cf ct ilor horace e L seaver mr seaver wa was reluctant to talk but finally told hi his story V left springfield pr ingfield said he lie at 10 thursday night with a crowded train of about two hundred passengers we had the engine bag goge car one coach and a pullman sleeper the passengers engers were mostly excursionists coming to chicago to spend ho the ath we ive reached guthrie on time and had pulled out for melin vin five miles distant between these two places is a wooden bridge spanning spinning a ri ravine the tile night was not very dark and we did not expect anything to occur to keep arg m from making the run oa oo time 0 wo o bad had just pulled out from guthrie and I 1 was increasing the speed alien lien for some reason I 1 began to cage cape up gradually when about two miles from tile bridge I 1 noticed a reflection in the sky to the northward but supposed it was i us from a fire which tramps had built near lie track we open often pass euch such fies fi es ea without paying any attention to th alim m my fireman albort albert rope wai sitting on his seat and we were both gilletly Ill etly enjoying the coot night air I 1 kept easing up keeping my my hand on the throttle bar and not thinking of anything in in particular ti in an instant I 1 saw before my eyes as ills plainly as though the picture tur were made of material mater al objects the outlines of th tho place where here that bridge was located 0 two miles mile from there upon bolike me like a a I 1 said to That bridge I 1 gone and I 1 know k now it I 1 hive have bad experiences before and I 1 bae have come to rely upon my feelings to a lard larga extent I 1 did last night with the full fall conviction I 1 that hat although I 1 bad not seen tile bridge or tho tile place where it was I 1 knew it was gone I 1 stopped the train just as we were within thirty foet of the and mv alv fireman looked ahead and so did 1 I the bridge was wa in realia re alit g gone 0 ne wo we jumped out of the cab aid ald made an examination of the place i lace where rethe the epan bad had been there was a heap 0 of smoldering embers and I 1 there here was wa nothing left of the bridge br I 1 dge eava save the rails which still hung over th the 0 ravine ravine held together by the cinders and bolts the tito trestle was thirty five feet long and eight feet high on either tide side of the track there is a steep embankment bobe asked me how I 1 happened to stop etc the train I 1 could not tell him I 1 so do not know I 1 can only eay say that I 1 knew that the bridge was g gone 0 ne conductor 1 dward edward collins colling ca came me forward to lee what the matter was and when he be looked at the swinging rails ahead he lie could hardly speak we all thought of chatsworth and thanked our stars that some invisible influence or power had saved two hundred people |