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Show SAVED BY A MIRACLE. ' -- t 1 ' ' - i i Car Filled With Passengers Nicely Poised and Swayed on the. Verge of an Ah yss. Perhaps the most curious wreck in tho history of railroad disasters occurred oc-curred some time ago in Arizona. The Maricopa and Phoenix train was rushing rush-ing across the Tcmpe bridge, eight miles from Phoenix, when a span of the bridge gave way, hurling the engine en-gine and three cars to the dry, sandy bed below. It was a mixed train, the first three cars being freight cars and the rest passenger carriages. The fourth car, filled with passengers, hung poised over the edge, teetering apparently in a shiver of doubt. Had it fallen it must have dragged the next! car with it, and the occupants of both have been crushed in the debris. It hung, however, half on and half off the bridge, as if ready to Jump Into space, tipped down at quite an angle toward the ground. The passengers all got out safely. The only fatality in this accident was that of a Pima Indian who was stealing a ride and got caught in the debris. |