An Efficient Test.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 286, 30 October 1884, Page 3

An Efficient Test.

The value of tHe Westinghonse brake was well illustrajted receritlv m America, where a frightful calamity was avoided by its application. It happened to the Chicago li mited express train near Sal6m, Chio. While ) th^. train, was running » al £ B |>ecd of about 4(Tmires*an^ hou r the boiler of the locomotive exploded, killing tbeeii^ineer and firemar\ instantly. The vipience. o^the expl osion was ho great that! it tore the Iqc'ouidtive into fragmenta, and cause^l an opening m tb* lino st a point where there was am embankment 3Ofthight v .Seldom m of railway accidents, hare jtfifl. cpVji^iofaS; for a;^terrible cataa-" V % 9P^-/,beea -so ., fearfully ' brought .Vo»n^r y et, w/th the,except;ipn pf the .V^ff;* nnfoiiunrtein^enj.whp w<?re killed b.y .the .explosion; the. accident passed without, loss ,of hfe ? iftnd no 'gerioius injury. The shock which depriveld the: train of tbo guidance of its lotomoti've, and opeiied \he way down the embankment, also fractured 'the Westinghouse air-brake pipes, and the brakes were instantly, self-applied. ThiscKecked the speed so promptly that only the.baggufre car and smoking car went over the bank, the brakes preventing the hind oars from acting as a battering-ram on those m front. Several of the passengers were badly bruised through being tumbled round m the cars that left the track, but none of them seriously injured/