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| − | The air breaks are coupled up to the two coaches.
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| − | I noticed immediately, directly I felt the shock that some
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| − | thing occurd to the train line of my air equipment.
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| − | I immediately put the engineers break valve in lap
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| − | position. The train was at a standstill and as I had [no?]
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| − | injector working I waited a few minuets until I got
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| − | sufficient water in the engine, I might say before
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| − | leaving Cumberland two workmen Thomson & Edwards who were going to
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| − | No 4. mine got on the engine and went in on the firemans
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| − | side <s>while I</s> when we received the shock at the
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| − | switch Thomson and Edwards got off the engine going
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| − | a head to find out the trouble. Thomson then came
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| − | back asking me for a light, at the same time stating
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| − | that someone got hurt. I gave him my torch <s>and told</s>
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| − | I then got off my engine went ahead with him and
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| − | found some loaded cars three or four, three I am certain
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| − | of, they were standing [foul?[] on the main track. The
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| − | nearest load coal cars was within about as near
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| − | as near as I could judge 4 or 5 feet of the points of the
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| − | switch, the switch was set for the main line there
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| − | was a space of about 6 or 8 feet between the workmans
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| − | car that I had on my [ham?] and <s>below</s> the loaded coal cars.
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| − | When I ordered my engine I had moved my train
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| − | back this distance right after I received the shock.
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| − | I also noticed some person laying and also noticed
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| − | the end of the workmans car was stove in also noticed
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| − | the body or person laying amongst the wreckage on the
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| − | car, some of the workmen had gone to the mine for
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| − | a stretcher. I then went back to my engine got
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| − | things ready to bring the body of the dead Chinaman that
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| − | was dead also another injured Chinaman hurt at
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| − | same time. I brought them in the workmen coach to
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| − | the water tank and nob. I then took the men
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| − | back to No. 4 that had assisted,.
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| − | This is all I personally know of the matter
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| − | The cards that my train ran into were standing on
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| − | my previous trip about 140 feet away from the switch
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