Jones; Casey (real name John Luther Jones); US American engine driver; 14.3.1863 Missouri (USA) - 30.4. 1900 near Vaughan (USA); accident.Casey Jones and his boilerman Simeon T.Webb and the Locomotive no. 638; called "Cannonball"of the Illinois Central Railroad (I.C.R.R.); on the stretchbetween Chicago and New Orleans.(Following an accident near Vaughan on 29.4.1900 the line was blocked. Engine driver Casey Jones was driving at full speed; trying to makeup for an earlier delay and misread a signal that the line was blocked. He could not avoid running into the derailed train; but he managed to brake so that no passenger in the train was killed and he had ordered his boilerman to jump off the train. He himself was killed.Photo