HEROIC ENGINE-MEN.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 6

HEROIC ENGINE-MEN.

(detbo.t free press.) 44 There are heroes and heroes, and there arc heroines and heroines,” says Chauucey M. Depew to a Philadelphia Pressman, in speaking of tho matter of persout-l bravery. “ There are blue-shirted men who go over our railroad lines every day in engine cibs who would laugh at yon it you intimated to them that they are heroes, and who, in spite of all, are as brave as any man who ever drew a swoxd or cari-ied a musket. Railroad men seldom have much time to think. They are cowards or heroes in a second. Not long ago one of our engineers of an express traiu rounded a tuna in the read and saw that another traiu had been derailed and lay right across the track. A collision was inevitable. The engineer might have taken chances aud jumped, but h didn’t. As he said afterwards “ 4 I saw right, away w e Mi .in for v, and like a flash it struck me that our only chance was to go right ahead and cut through if we could. So I threw her open and let her go.’ 44 The experiment was perilous, but it was successful. He did 4 cut through,’and no one was injured. This act of the engineer was that of an' exceedingly courageous cool-headed

‘“Another ongineer on a Western road perforined a similar a-et some time ago with tragic results. He tried to—or, in fact, was forced to try to—cut through a freight train that had been thrown, across the track. Nona of the passengers were injured, but tho engineer and this fireman were killed. This i 6 but too often the reward of bravery in all walks of life.”