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Show That danger lurks iu unexpected places often meets . it ti illustration. A few days ago, while a train ou the Pennsylvania railroad was passing R.ihvvay at a speed of thirty iniioa an j hour, the passengers were startled by a j .rash in thu direction of tho eugino. All I as quiet again in an instant, and the Iraia npe,d ou. When Jersey City was reached, a steel rail thirty lent in length was found wedged over the j trucks of one of the forward coaches, j Inquiry developed the fact that tho rail I was part of a switch at Railway ami j in soiue unaccountable manner had been torn up by thu Hying train. That ! Iruin-loatt of people escaped a horrible j disaster by no more thau a hair's breadth. It would probably bo impossible impos-sible for a rail to bo lorn up in that way again without causing a wreck, if In this case the train had been dashed to destruction, the cause of the wreck would have been a mystery. A hundred hun-dred theories would havo beeu advanced, ad-vanced, but the public, ns well as the officer of the road, would have remained re-mained in profound ignorance of the real cause. As it is, railroad men now know that it I possible for a rushing train to catch up tiie loose rail of a j Btvi;eh. anil another element of danger 1 in railroad U is located. j |