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Show SAVED BY A BIRD. Disastrous Wreck Averted In Texas In a Peculiar Manner. Austin, Tex., Dec. 23. The north; bound passenger train on the International Inter-national & Great Northern railway narrowly missed a serious wreck forty miles below here through the intervention inter-vention of a bird. Some miscreant had tied a rail across the track. A few miles before reaching the spot a bird, blinded by the headlight, flew against the glass, breaking it and extinguishing the light. This necessitated running slowly to the next station. The train, proceeded at reduced speed, struck the obstruction, tearing up the track and damaging the front of the engine, but no one was injured. |