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Show Three Girls of Nerve, Pete Walters, a passenger engineer of the Bolaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, had a horrifying as well as thrilling experience. Ho was running his train at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, and when he entered the stretch just before reaching Binghamten bridge he was horrified to see three blackberry; girls on the structure. Ho reversed his encrine and then fainted. The fireman took charge of the throttle, throt-tle, and when the engine was within thirty yards of the girls one of them, with remarkable presence of mind, jumped to tho side of the bridge, stretched forward flat on her face and swung herself her-self clear of tho truck, hanging on to tho end of the ties over tho rushing waters beneath. In a moment the other girls followed her example, and just as tha train swept by tho last of tho trio swung clear of the bridge, while, with amazement amaze-ment and horror plainly stamped on their .countenances, the passengers and trainmen watched with nnxiety tho human hu-man forms swaying to and fro in midair. mid-air. - As soon as the train could be stopped , the passengers and crew rushed back to tho sceno and rescued the brave girls from their terrible plight. Wilkesbarro Cor. Philadelphia Kecord. |