Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — THOUGHT ONLY OF HIS TRAIN [ARTICLE]

THOUGHT ONLY OF HIS TRAIN

Fatally Scalded, Engineer Applies Air Rrakea awrt Stop* Flyer Before H* Losses Consciousness. By great bravery and presence of mind William'A. Carr, sixty years ol<J, an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, saved the Philadelphia-New York express when the boiler flues blew out, filling, the nail with steam and scalding him so severely that physicians say he will die. *

The express passed Millitone Junction, N. Y., at 60 miles an hour and had reached a point half way between the station and Metuchen, when there Came a terrific roar and the engineer’s side of the cab was filled with steam.

Carr, although half blinded, new another train Was ahead of him and that he must act before he became unconscious. With one hand he closed the throttle and with the other he shot the air brake control full over, setting the brakeshoes against the wheels until they slid squealing along the rails. Trainmen and passengers ran torward and found the fireman lifting the limp form of his engineer.