Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1877 — A Conductor’s Singular Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Conductor’s Singular Mistake.

Conductor Herkins’ train from New York Saturday evening was delayed half an hour by a singular accident. Our readers may remember our account, a year ago. of the Harlem conductor whose hat blew out of the bag-gage-car door, end who reached for ft so eagerly that he followed it, and was so injured by the fall as to be laid up for several months. The same conductor,' Budlong, was collecting fares Saturday in the tunnel on the train which leaves the depot on the Harlem Road at 2:20 p. m. Passing through the last car, he walked on, thinking he had another car to visit, and walked right off the end of his train, falling on

the track. It is very dark in the tunnel, and the rolling smoke made it im possible to see that there was not another ear. Ihe engineer soon discovered that Budlong was missing. He telegraphed back to the depot, and Conductor Herkins’ train was held back, so that it might not run over Budlong’s body. An engine was Sent up through the tunnel.to look for it, and it was found on the track. Budlong was unconscious and badly hurt; but it is said that no bones had been broken.— New Haven (Conn.) Palladium.