- After their demands for more pay and shorter hours having been bluntly turned down by Dell, the firemen declare a strike. The president promptly hires strike-breakers with destructive consequences.
- Their demands for more pay and shorter hours having been bluntly turned down by Dell, the firemen declare a strike. The president promptly hires strike-breakers. Blanche, Dell's daughter, boards one of the crack trains for a trip to a distant city. Five minutes after the flyer pulls out, a freight train lumbers in. In leaning out of the cab, the engineer of the freight is struck by the arm of a water tower and seriously injured. In falling, the man pulls the throttle wide open. The freight dashes after the train on which Helen is one of the passengers. The fireman on the freight, a strike-breaker, unable to stop the runaway, leaps off in terror. A striker cuts the telegraph wires. The operator at a country station discovers that the passenger train is threatened with destruction by the runaway freight. Unable to get in communication with the station ahead because of the severed wires, the man phones to headquarters. Dell learns of his daughter's peril. Wild with anxiety, the president leaps aboard a locomotive. By dashing along a disused and dangerous part of the road, he makes a short cut which brings him to a bridge at Millville, under which the runaway must pass. Climbing to the top of the structure, Dell crouches for a leap. The flyer passes under the bridge. The runaway is a mile behind. The freight rattles under the bridge at furious speed. Facing a terrible fate, Dell leaps for one of the flat cars. He escapes death by a miracle. Although badly bruised, the man crawls to the cab of the locomotive, just as it is almost atop of the flyer. With a desperate jerk, Dell closes the throttle. The conductor of the passenger train discovers the freight behind and brings the passenger to a stop. Blanche, alighting to learn the cause of the delay, is seized by her father who is wild with joy because of her narrow escape. Impressed with the danger of employing green men in place of the strikers. Dell returns to the city. Sending for the striker's delegation, he announces that he has decided to accede to their demands.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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