DRAMATIC TRAGEDY IN A SIGNAL BOX.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 1

DRAMATIC TRAGEDY IN A SIGNAL BOX.

A signalman died with dramatic II f d v"v S S , at Ihe1 he Rowsley Won 5M 1 l and railwa y- The Dorbv to Manchester express was pulled up by a fi danger signal at 1.45, and when the fireman .went to the signal-box ham Blackham, the signalman, lyins: dead on the floor: In one hand ho had some food v and he had evident! lv risen from h, s suoper to answer the ring from the Haddon Hill box S h ™J }^ the approach of To S?M he D S a h h a o d ut°r& signal for the express to P ass Black! ham, who was Si years d *% e T had always enjoyed perfect health was had In habiis a «d Iy M& r^l^ b -^ h g \ears and before that he wap guard. He had only gone on duty at 10 on the Tuesday n,ght for the .fifst time af *? r h" ; hohdajs, and five minutes before his death he had talked over the telephone with the signalman told him. that the holiday was the pleasantest he had ever spent; he had felt m better health. His last rimon^"'' 13111 *^^ 11 -