MAD ENGINE-DRIVER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 12

MAD ENGINE-DRIVER.

• A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Passengors in the express from Nancy to Pans had a lucky escape on th« 6th of last month. The tr,ain was stopping at Chalons, when a powerful enginu of tho newest pattern toro into the sta» tion at sixty miles an hour on the limn line. Luckily the signalman, with splendid presence of mind, threw out tha points in such a way that tho engine ran off the rails on to an embankment, whore it overturned a hundred yards further on. The stoker jumped, and landed unhurt. An explanation was then forthcoming. The driver had left Chaumont, seventy miles away, mad with drink, and had run past all the signals and over fog-sig-nals. He was clinging to his ongins when she was overturned, and haa to be removed forcibly, still senseless' front alcohol, but unhurt otherwise. The stoker, a young fellow, had not dared to remonstrate with tho furious drunkard, and all he had been able to do was to blow the whistle constantly. One can imagine his sensations during tho wild ride. Tho miracle is that the flying engine, over a distance of seventy milei* caused no disaster.

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