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DROPS DEAD IH ENGINE CABQuick Wf* of Conductor Save* Live* of 100 Passenger® Wh#n Death Takes Engineer.Centra] Isllp, N. T.—While more than KM) passenger* sat unconcerned on a Isong Island train, and the fireman was too busy stoking his fires to notice anything wrong, Engineer George B. Cunningham dropped over in his seat in the cab, and the train ran wild. vWhen it kept up its mile-a-minute clip past the station at Central Islip, and raced over a grade crossing without its usual warning whistle, Conductor Jr hn J. McKeever knew something had hapepned. He rushed forward and stopped tiie train with the emergency brake.The escape of the trainload of passengers from disaster through the quick wit of the conductor has just become known.The fireman, Matthew Carranza, looked up from his fires when he felt the train rock to a stop, and found his engineer dead, his hand fallen from tlie throttle. A heart failure attack had caused the engineer’s death.
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Spring Valley Gazette
Spring Valley, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 05, 1923
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