BURNING OF AN OIL TRAIN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1200, 3 June 1872, Page 2

BURNING OF AN OIL TRAIN.

[piTTSBtrKaH COMMERCIAIi.I ••'- Tlie Pennsylvania Railroad, near Hue* ton's; Station, -was the- scene of an, accident." ■--; of a rather peculiar nature recently. ~ What in. railroad parlance- is termed 'fan „ ',',, / oil wreck, "bccurrgd'near the pourf named! ' " by which an entire oil train was | more or less damaged; Mr Robert Liggett^ the of ; the .train, fearing that; the oil which wa3 leakingupon the track might* be setf 6ri"fire By some "passing ; tirain7?~ ~ righted nine cars- on the: Soils' and proceeded with them in the direction of Ice Mountain; : siding. : He had gone vwithk ?? them but .a shorji; distance" when •'&©* dis*^.:covered that the third, car-from the engine< was on fire. At great personal risk Mr Liggett made his way almost through the burning oil to thecouplingand there.tqqkf out the pin, and, leaving the other ■ seven. / ; . , 'bars on the track, made quick t&e.%ith, ! i, 7 the hurning car aa.far as the siding, three r-r-. miles distant, where he left, them, thus saving the main track 'from' catchiug fire f -The to this point is spoken of as _ something *iti' the heebie ; line n6t- ; 6fter( J | attempted. The flames ;from'.the'bnrnr -^ ing car, we are informed, rolled up far jabpve the tree tops, and wh«n an oil barrel would explode, the burning contents shot in all directions, the cab of v engine hot being -allowed' td'e'sbapV the w dangerous element. When the siding was •reached and' an attempt was niade' to babK : the cars upon it the engine had 1 %b W^ i: " rau over the burning oil which was on the' " track. The : siding .wasndown.ja, steep grade, in the direction of the large lumber . : m^nvjfac.tory of , Mr - : % , H s Bro.wn./ ; h Mr r -^ • .tiggett ' knowing 'what a "terrible ' io'ss^jj 1 would ensue were the burnipg car allowed to descend the grade with the brakes off, brayely .determined to boarduthe burning; oi cai*, and use his best endeavors to. checfe it. This he did, and amid the smoke and tho flame' he. stood at thß'brake^-utitilttfd*'. great heat caused the brake r'rod to smip' ' asunder. Fortunately, -Mr Biggettj'aTitfc "~v cipating. such an event,'shad despatched one of the train men a few yards ahead of . the burning car, ftith instruction^to 1 place' j£ V ! 'heavy.'.log';«p6 : ii-''tlib';|^ck'i 1 ' ; This' wa^ ' ' accomplished in 'time.f'ttt.'' kaVeVa gy^fe^ I '" '^ of prpjjerfiy; Mr liigg^t^js' d^rvingqf ;^ aU;_ci*edit fbr lm herpism : tjii't)i~e o^swnj '»' / which certainly m\s"oi m WmMordsr'' of merit. • v^J ,7;.<u^:va . ..