HEROIC ACT OF AN ENGINEDRIVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 6 January 1883, Page 3

HEROIC ACT OF AN ENGINEDRIVER.

Hi Anengiuo'-driveronthe Pennsylvania. HJ) railway, recently saved the lives of 6CO B passengers. The .furnace door was B ' opened by tbo liremnu to vpjllonish tlio', B fire while the train was going 35 miles B au hour. The back draught forced thn B flames out so that, the car of; t|ie loop;-' fl motive caught' ; 'liie; l; hnd' tjio engineB driver and the lii'eiiiim..wo) , u.;,driy)^; fl back over the tender into the passenger: B car, leaving tlie engine without control'. B The speed increased and the' v'olumo of B flame with it. There was imminentfl danger that all the carriages would.take fl fire, and the wh&lc train-bo. consumed. B The passen&era' were panic-stricken. Bf To jump off w s aSjOortairi; death; to :re-< Hi main was to bo ourncd'alive. .';*■ The Hi engine-driver saw.thattjie,oiily:,vajr Hi to save the,. passengers,,was to ■/ return to the engine and stop the train. ■/ He plunged into the fhmes, climbed ■:' back over the tender,-and reversed the Hi ■ engine. When the train' ; came ; t6 a Bl standstill, iii the waterHI tank, whither lie had clinibed,'with, his K clothes entirely burnt off, his laco dinHi figured, hitljtoids shockingly burned, H; and bis bodytplistered so badly that Br the flesh was stripped off. in-many. [HI places. Weak and half-conscious, ho Hj was taken.to the hospital where'ais: Bf injuries werel pronounced, serious, with H slight chance of recovery..- 'As so'oti'-iis' flj the train stopped the flames wore easily Hp extinguished., Tim unanimous teE.tiHi .rnony of tlie jjassengcrs. i.s that the H driver saved their lives, His name is Hj Joseph A, Bieg,~Hbme Paper. •' J: - :