Show FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT heroism 0 of a on thursday morning list ast as the mail train on the terre haute and alton railroad avas as coming coming west westward vard about eighteen miles this line side side of terre haute th the e engineer of the train on the look out ahead su I 1 denly discovered ehst a large culvert A which aich the cars were rapidly approaching had been badly baal washed avay by the I 1 hard bard rains and floods of the pre preceding cedill I 1 night he immediately reversed the en ell gme gi ip and with the conductor fireman and several brak brakesman esmen lumped jumped from the train for safely the passengers numbering about sixty knew nothing of the impending din danger and re remained m allied in their scats scabs but there was vias one hero on oil the train in in the person of the brakeman of the hindermost car though warned named like the others he stood manfully man an to his post and with superhuman h an strength tightened the brake w with ith such force upon the wheels of his car as to cause their revolution reo lution to cease altogether this clog upon the tram train acting in cn concert ert with the reversed reier sed motion of the engine brought bro the passenger cars toa stand still just on the bunk brink 0 of f a frightful precipice into which had tumbled gumbl e the locomotive and tender had the cars gone down the loss of life would vi have been appalling the brake mans mails name dilme we ve could not learn he helas was overwhelmed overwhelm e d with wilh the gratitude of the passengers whose lives he had bad saved and we ave understand is is about to recife som some e handsome reward from the railroad for his noble and heroic conduct 1 31 louis demon democrat at |