TRAIN RUNS WILD
DRIVER TAKEN ILL
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. A runaway elevated train, its motorman stricken, carried 30 frightened passengers on a wild 15-block ride last night. Tlie three-car train roared through two stations before the conductor entered the motorman’s cab. The motorman, Harry Carr, toppled out, thereby releasing the “dead man’s control" on the air brake which the weight of iiis body had kept from functioning. The train jerked to a slop. An ambulance physician said Mr. Carr suffered an epileptic seizure, and that his condition was not serious.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 6
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