Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1918 — TAKES NAP IN “DEAD’’ ENGINE. [ARTICLE]

TAKES NAP IN “DEAD’’ ENGINE.

Workman Starts Fire and Man Is Bruised and Burned. Tamaqua, Pa. —Arlamond Wagner had a narrow escape from being burned to death at the Reading railroad shops, when he crawled into the firebox of a “dead” locomotive to make repairs and fell asleep. In the meantime, not knowing that a Worker was in the engine and believing the repairs had ijeen made and not reported, the foreman ordered the engine fired up. A pile of wood was ignited and the flames were just beginning to pour through the firebox when Wagner woke up. He plunged through the firebox door headforemost and sustained severe bruises, in addition to his barns.