Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — Man Stole a Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Man Stole a Locomotive.

“By George! I am going to that dance at Paxton’s somehow,” an unidentified young man declared here the other night when informed there would would be no trains going east for some time, according to the Bozeman (Mont.) correspondent of the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review. He walked over to a lone locomotive, entered the cab and started east, breaking through a closed switch and going out on the main line. Engineer McVicker, in a locomotive, was traveling toward this city when he noticed that the block system registered danger. He saw the smoke of an engine approaching and stopped his own. His fireman jumped and McVicker reversed his engine. Fireman Boehling caught the approaching engine, climbed into the cab, found it “driverless” and brought it to a stop a short distance from McVicker’s engine. No trace of the locomotive thief has been found. He evidently jumped when he saw the other engine approaching.-