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Show Saved by Their Qood Grip. A thrilling incident occurred near St. Clair, Pa., the other morning involving the lives of two men. YThen the morning morn-ing train from Shenandoah was approaching ap-proaching the ninety-feet high trestle of the Pennsylvania railroad, a mile above that place, at, a high rate of speed the engineer was horrified at discovering discover-ing two men ahead in the center of the structure. It was too late to stop the train, and as there. is but a single track and no sidewalk the engineer, after reversing re-versing his engine, closed his eyes to shut out the sight of two human beings hurled into space. The train reached the west side of the trestle before it stopped, when the two men, supposed to have been thrown into the ravine below, be-low, were seen walking along the trest-ling. trest-ling. They escaped death by hanging from the spans which the trains passed over. |