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Show Murphy's Long; Leap for Lire. John Murphy, a harness maker of Cleveland,' sat up with a sick friend at Hocky river and started to walk home next morning on the Nickel Plate track. While crossing the bridge over Kooky river, w'jich is ninety-two feet above th water, he was overtaken by a" passenger train, He shouted to the engineer and started to run, but it was too late. The ehriek of the whistle, the roar of the train and the trembling of the bridge caused Murphy to become panicstricken, so that instead of lying down on the outur timbers, as be might have dono with perfect safety, he leaped fflom the bridge into the chasm below. The passengers on the train ftnd three or four persons in the vicinity saw Murphy Mur-phy turn over several times in his awful fall and strike the water, which is only six feet deep at this point:, and supposed he was killed. The keepar of the boat-house, boat-house, a short distance below, pulled rapidly to the spot, found Murphy still struggling and hanled him into the boat. He vomited freely, but quickly recovered, recov-ered, and on the arrival of a physician it was found that, although badly shaken np and bruised, he hud sustained no serious seri-ous injury, Cor. Chicago Herald. |