The engineer of the Philadelphia and Reading flyer, which on
the night of January 27, 1903, plowed its death-dealing way
without warning into the splintered cars of the Eastern express
on the New Jersey Central Railroad, near Westfield, N. J., was
extricated from the wreck suffering terribly from wounds from
which he afterward died. When first carried to the hospital
and questioned concerning the cause of the wreck, he could
give no clear idea of how it happened that he ran by the red
signal. In his agony he kept murmuring: “I saw nothing!” His
later testimony was somewhat confused, but it hardly added to
or subtracted from the force of that short, sad lament, “I saw
nothing!” Many a mortal spirit rushes through this world seeing
nothing, speeding on and on toward eternity, and recklessly
running by signal after signal set by merciful hands to warn it
of the dangers ahead.--_Grace and Truth._
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