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Show Narrow Escape. A man named E. Bird narrowly and almost miraculously escaped death by the down train from Oden yesterday morning. While sitting on a gravel car at tho siding on the sand-ridge, sand-ridge, the other side of Kaysville, waiting for the passenger train to pass, his hat blew off and across the track, lie picked up the hat, was returning to the car, and was on the track when he stooped to pick up an apple that had dropped from his pocket, apparently forgetting the ap proaching train. As he stooped, the locomotive, which was running about twenty miles an hour, struck him, throwing him to the pilot beam. Fortunately be had presence pf mind lo catch one of the iron braces, and hold fast with both hands till the train could be stopped. S. range as it may appear, the man received no injuries save a Blight scalp wound. No blame can be attached at-tached to auy one, unless to Bird himself, him-self, for attempting to cross the track when the train was so near; but he says he will do so no more, unless lie should happen to forget again. |