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In the most recent Classic Trains, there's an article about the experiences of a B&O trainmaster in West Virginia coal country.  Part of the trainmaster's experiences was the fatal accident in a caboose when a train moving past the yard, on the main track, went into emergency stop because a switch had been left lined for the yard entrance and not the main (a violation of B&O operating rules that had been tolerated by crews and management for a long time before the trainmaster who wrote the article arrived). One employee was killed in the caboose and another severely injured when the slack bunched-in and the resulting impact threw them violently (they were found inside the caboose - they weren't tossed-out).  I don't have the magazine here with me, but I don't recall reading in this terrible story how long the train was, but it was pulling empty hoppers, so I assume it wasn't just a short cut of cars. When a train goes into e-stop, does the whistle sound automatically?  Could the unfortunate crewmen have had any time at all (maybe just a few seconds) to get a hold of something to brace for impact if they heard a steady whistle?  I guess with an impact so violent, even if they had grabbed onto something they may have just been torn loose from it anyway. Perfectly horrible...
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