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Ditched The Engine Of Passenger Train

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
February
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

DITCHED THE ENGINE OF PASSENGER TRAIN

The eastbound Michigan Central train which passed through Ann Arbor at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday amidst a dense fog, when within eight miles of Detroit ran into an open derailing safety switch, which was set against the train near a block signal station. The engine, tender, baggage car and smoking car left the rails, running 200 or 300 feet on the ties, and then the engine and tender ran into the ditch at the right of the track. The baggage car slewed around and was thrown across the east, the west and the side track.

The fireman jumped and struck tho back of his head on something and he was badly shocked, but was walking around the wreck for a time after it was all over. The engineer stuck to his throttle and crawled out from under the engine cab, after the wreck, merely severely shaken. The brakeman's leg was bruised. The two sleeping cars never left the track.

It being a blockade station, telegraphic communication was instantly established, and within 30 minutes a wrecking crew arriver from Detroit and 20 minutes later another train wrecking crew arrived from Detroit train passengers and carried them on toward their destination. The engineer who stuck to his throttle and went down with the wreck is J. Fitzpatrick, of Jackson, Mich. He was less hurt than Fireman Frederick C. Rowe, of 438 Wabash avenue, who jumped from the train. The brakeman whose leg was injured was Ed. Martins, of Detroit.