Show A FEARFUL RILE A tramps htide under a train during i rig ti it buzzard blizzard for miles in the freezing cold cola sanford Menva ivanus nue a rode on the trucks of 0 a P C C st st louis train and arrived at fourteenth street depot at yesterday day lust just barely alive ile ho may die yet from the terrible exposure men Blen vanui van w Is a young man about 28 29 years of 0 sg age and la Is a 0 carpenter in scarab of employment ho walked all the way from st louls to indianapolis and then walked all over the hoosier IIo osler capital tal in quist ot of work but lie he could fand pd none finally the police warned him to get out ot of the town llo lie did not want to start and walk in ab aitho 0 blizzard and he be slipped down to uie the railroad yards and h hid ld under the trucks of a freight twin train none of the trainmen saw him and he be stooped iowa down and squatted on tile the narrow strip of 0 wood that runs under the car just back of the wheels and about four inches inch e s from the roadbed lie he clutched clied the arc iron i i chains and the bars 1 t tha that t support the brakel icam and was wag I 1 in this position when the train started I 1 1 ile ha had bad never ridden in it this position I 1 before bu but t lie had bad heard beard of its ita having abeen been done and he concluded to try it rather than start to walk out or of town it he did not do it lie thought lie ho would freeze to death along the way tho the trip was a thrilling one oil as aa described by the tramp at edinburg he be bamo near falling oft off and his big hand hands i were numb nurna from cold the snow and jee ice heat beat up jn hla his taco face from the track as they lew aloner aloff scratching him and leaving long bloody streaks reaka Bl he was afraid to mo move ve tor for tear fear of 0 falling under the wheels and that was what it meant it if lio be released his hot hold or lost consciousness several times he yelled at I 1 t tile top of 0 his big voice when n ile he thought he was going to fall but the roar 0 of the tivilia deadened the sound and the trainmen did not hear bear him irig his strength wag waff fast ebbing away and had the Ills dl stancu boon been a mill further he would have perl perished sheil under the wheels for he could not have held on any longer As the train ir in k tit at the depot lie he was just ahle able to climb out from under the cair then ho he sank exhall exhausted ted by the bido of the trade track patrolman reedy saw him blin and ran to b hla Is assistance the roan man into the waiting room where he was s somewhat oin e w hat but it was wan reen been that t lie be w was as in a bad way all and d the no 2 patrol wayon wagon was sent gmt to take him to the city hospital there dr denden dendon examined him and ent him to the male medical ward lie he pronounced lils its condition very serious the railroad men pay there was not one chance in of his hh making the trip and surviving when ho he started un dor the trucks it Is a plan used sometimes by desperate tramps in the dhe sum eum clr amr but the most moat re reckless ekless of thorn them would woul I not attempt it in the winter Iou lAvIlle commercial |