Crazed Engineers

Insanity is very frequent among railway employees. Two dramatic illustrations eau be mentioned. There is living in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, a man who for many years was the f orernost passenger engineer between New York and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania railroad. He ran all the specials and best trains, and in 10 years never had an accident. One night in the gleam of the headlight he saw a woman. He had only time to see her hands raised and to hear her cry, and before he could put his hand upon the lever he feit a jerk under the wheels and knew that all was over. Since that uight he has never been on an engine. For rnonths he did not sleep and later became practically insane, but only on the one point of seeing and hearing the woman his engine killed. Now he goes about harmlessly and aimlessly, but he has to be kept awayfrom railroads, and in hiü fretf ui sleep he awakes with cries and paroxysms of horror. The other case is that of a man who was conductor of a train on the (Jamden and Amboy, whose train had an accident. He carne out all right himself, but it preyed so upon his mind that one night he lef t his home, and going to the point where the accident oceurred threw himself in front of a passing train, receiving