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Show TRAiN GOES OVER . BUBNINGCULVERT I Dashing over a burning culvort at j tho rato of nearly a mile a minute, ! the passengers and crew of the Orc-.gon Orc-.gon Short Line Fast Mall train No. 10 had a miraculous escape from disaster dis-aster and death Saturday evening at Borah siding, the first station wast of American Falls, Idaho, Although fiagped by two men. who had discovered discov-ered the danger, tho engineer of the speeding trnln was unable to s-'op and had It not been that the atructure was able to still bear the weight of tho train a fearful -wreck would have occurred. j Tho mall train, east bound, was fif- teen minutes late, and was endeavor-i endeavor-i Ing to make up time. U R. Drake i and O. K. Bonn, two American Fall3 1 farmers, camo upon the blazing cul-i cul-i vcrl and realizing the danger hurried up tho track to flag the train. The ( wore unable to reach a point far dis- tant from the oulvort btfom tho train was upon them. Tlie n?tneer saw i tholr signals to stop, howator, and ( applied the emergency brakes at once. . The momentum was to great, It is I stated, that the entire trafh hot i acroni tho culvert at undimlnlahtd speod. those a hoard lift'. realizing ; tholr danger until they were brought . to a halt half a mile beyond. ) Snparintaariant B. C Manon and Division Superintendent A. B. Stoven, 1 ton were aboard the former's special ! car which wan attached to too train. ; It la said ihftt Pficen minutes later ! the cohort foil in rwlna. |