Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1911 — Sticks to Blazing Engine. [ARTICLE]

Sticks to Blazing Engine.

With the woodwork of the cab ablaze and a shower of sparks streaming behind. Engineer Goodwin drove a Boston and Maine locomotive with six crowded passenger cars attached into the Faulkner station, says a Malden (Mass.) dispatch. The passengers had no inkling of trouble until they heard the fire engines. Firemen extinguished the blaze and the train proceeded. The engineer said that a broken pipe had allowed water to fall into the firebox, causing a small explosion, which threw hot coals back into the cab. Although burned about the face and hands, the engineer stuck to his post.