Train Wrecker

A crane similar in appearance to the oldtime gibbet is erected near the track, and may have served as a warning by its suggestive appearance to some would-be train-wrecker. ❋ Various (N/A)

Western train-wrecker, loafers, drug-fiends, perhaps a one-time college man, who through the curse of drink has got there. ❋ Dave Ranney (N/A)

If capital punishment is to be on our statute books for anything, it should certainly be for the train-wrecker. ❋ Various (N/A)

The awful possibilities, however, which lie within the hands of the train-wrecker suggest most forcibly that this crime should be treated with unusual severity. ❋ Various (N/A)

On one floor, the air poisoned beyond description, the beds dirty, will be found over a hundred men, of all classes, from the petty thief to the Western train-wrecker, loafers, drug-fiends, perhaps a one-time college man, who through the curse of drink has got there. ❋ Ranney, Dave (1910)

The would-be train-wrecker toppled backward with a groan, just escaping the wheels of the engine. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

It was really a knockdown blow to the most of us, for while we may have been jealous on occasions of each other, it never occurred to any of us to be jealous of the train-wrecker. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

He is a train-wrecker, and the favorite resting-place for his heels is on some one else's foot. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

She told Robinson she hated lectures, and went to a stereopticon show with the train-wrecker. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)