A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Allan Cowden, a well-know locomotive engineer, has just had a thrilling experience. While coming down a deep four-mile grade into Marquette the train broke in two. Realising the danger of a collision, Engineer Oowden endeavored to pull away with the cars that remained with the engine, but the rear section of the train steadily gained, until the pace of the flying trains became fearful. /A mile out of Marquette he of the many men at w'ork in the yard who might be killed by the runaway train, and devised a plan to save them. Ordering the fireman to cut loose from the train he crowded on every pound of steam. As the locomotive shot forward he sounded three long blasts of the whistle, indicating that he wanted to keep the main track, and for the switchman to send the train on the siding. The switchman on duty responded, and as the engine passed the frog at a mile a minute he turned the lever and the two sections of the train dashed into the siding,and piled the cars up in an indescribable mass. Cowden had saved his life and that of his fireman, besides twenty employes in the yard, but the train was a total wreck, which however, it would have been in any case.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1701, 21 February 1888, Page 4
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218A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1701, 21 February 1888, Page 4
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