Careless Operator Skips Out

Richmonö, va., .uarcn 5. - in a, neauon colusión hetween north and south bound Norfolk and Western freight trains, near Island Ford, Fireman John Furbush was killed and Engineers Reid and Layman and Fiiemen More and ■ Grabill were perhaps fatally injured. Telegraph Operator Besser, at Basic City, whose negligence is said to have caused the collision, fled as soon as the wreek occurred, and nothing has been heard from him.