People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — HIS FATAL MISTAKE. [ARTICLE]

HIS FATAL MISTAKE.

Gave the Wrong Signal and in Horror at the Result Shot Himself. Easton, Pa, Oct 4.—A 'Lehigh Valley coal engine cut a Crane Iron company engine in two at Catasauqua. A dozen coal cars were wrecked and all travel blocked. The collision was due to Watchman Thomas Blas giving the signal to both engineers that the track was -clear. He had been stationed there more than twenty years and this was his first mistake. After he saw what he had done, he went home aud shot himself. John Ray, fireman on the Crane Iron company engine, died of injuries received, and Engineer Herbert James will be a cripple for life.