Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — NO MORE TRAIN COLLISIONS. [ARTICLE]

NO MORE TRAIN COLLISIONS.

A South Dakota Clergyman’s Device Makes Them Impossible. Railroad collisions will become a thing of the past if a new invention of Rev. Kurtmauu Mueller, pastor of the German Lutheran Church at Hartford, 8. D., comes into universal use. By it twotrains cannot, it is alleged, get within 2,000 feet of each other on a single track. When the trains reach a point where they are 8,000 fbet apart a danger signal in the form of an electric globe is lighted in the engine cab directly in front of each engineer. If the engineer for any reason fails to stop his train the engine will automatically stop itself. The train moves 2,000 feet after the danger signal is first displayed, and then the device automatically blows the whistle as a warning and stops the train. __ The keel of the battleship Nebraska was laid in Moran Bros.’ Company’s shipyard at Seattle, Wash., in the presence of an enormous crowd. Gov. Savage of Nebraska and Gov. Henry Mcßride of Washington drove the first rivet. ———- James Brady, formerly a wealthy merchant of St. Joseph, Mo., died at the county farm, at the age of 85. He had been In St. Joseph fifty years and was well connected. Helena, Mont., Independent has been bought by Senator Clark.