Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1914 — ENGINEER SWEPT FROM CAB [ARTICLE]

ENGINEER SWEPT FROM CAB

Peculiar Accident That Left Locomotive on Southern Railroad Without a Guiding Hand.

The lives of scores of persons leaving Baltimore for Philadelphia on an early morning train were placed in peril a few days ago when the engineer of the train, Benton L. Redmiles, of 328 Federal street, was swept from his cab by a piece of wreckage on an adjoining track, and instantly killed. That no other lives were lost as the train rushed wildly through the country without a guiding hand waß due to the fireman, who sprang to the throttle and stopped the long line of cars. The accident was due to the breaking of a car on a freight train bound for Bayview. At Orangeville there are four adjoining tracks. The freight train was proceeding to Bayview, and had arrived at this pointy when one of the

cars buckled over and acrois the adjoining track. Train No. 22, local bound for Philadelphia, passed red lanterns trainmen .had hung up to warn approaching trains, of impending danger. As the passenger passed the freight there was a terrific crash as the overhanging freight car tore the cab of the passenger train apart. Redmiles was catapulted from the train, together with the debris of the cab. It was then that the fireman of the passenger train succeeded in stopping the train and saving the lives of the passengers.^