FIREMAN’S AWFUL PERIL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 2

FIREMAN’S AWFUL PERIL.

A strange negro, probably insane, stole the detached locomotive of a freight train on the Central Georgia railway in the Smithviile yards and started the ponderous engine oat of the yards. . , Beneath the locomotive, at work, was the fireman. When it began to move he grasped for and clung to the driving rods—his only, chance for escape from death. Whirled up and down within a few inches of death for several minutes, he finally succeeded in climbing over the rods to the running board along the engine, then gained the cab, while the engine, with throttle wide open, was making fast time toward Dawson. At sight of the fireman, the negro engine thief jumped from the oar. A crowd of men who saw, the fireman’s narrow escape pursued and caught the negro.