Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — DEAD MAN DRIVES ENGINE [ARTICLE]

DEAD MAN DRIVES ENGINE

An extraordinary incident, which might have led to a grave disaster, is reported from Paris to the effect that the driver of a train on the line from Etel to Carnac died on the footplate the other day from heart failure. His stoker noticed nothing unusual until the train was just about to enter the station, when, perceiving that the train was still traveling at a comparatively high speed, he turned to the driver, and to his astonishment found that he was standing up, leaning against the side of the cab, stone dead. He at once put on the brakes >nd reversed steam, and the train stopped just in time to avert a catastrophe.