A NARROW ESCAPE.
The Chicago Railway Review of the 17th January says that a terrible bridge disaster was barely averted on Sunday at Boston by the alertness of the engineer of a New \ork and New England train and the Wcstinghouse air-brake. The large iron steamer Lancaster had crashed into the railway bridge beyond the Congress street draw, because a broken hellwire had failed to give the steamer’s engineer the signal to .stop, badly twisting the bridge timbers, breaking the draw lock, and deviating the rails ISiu out of line. No one was on the bridge or in tiie vicinity to warn the in-ward-bound train, whoso engineer saw the trouble but when a train’s length from the bridge. lie reversed and applied the brake, stopping the cars 15ft from the bridge abutments. But for this the train would have gone into the river, and as the tide was high, the loss of life would have been great. The history of actual railway disasters is appalling enough ; but there is au unwritten history of accidents which ought to convey just as important lessons.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 955, 6 August 1880, Page 3
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