Show ASLEEP ON THE TRACK Charles Gilles Has a Narrow Escape From Death ON THE CITY RAILROAD LINE Gilles Wns Intoxicated and Went to Sleep on the Car Track on Fifth South Between Main and State I StreetCar Struck Him Knocking Him Off tho Track Inflicting Only a Slight Scalp Wound He Came From Bingham Taken to Holy I1 I Cross Hospital I Street car tracks seem to be rivaling I downy couches us places of repose in Salt Lake lately I W J PIerson who Inaugurated the plan Saturday night had bad luck and got killed but Charles Gilles a middleaged man from Blngham tried the scheme last night and got away with only a slight scalp wound lie went to sleep with Ms head and shoulders on the rails of the Salt Lake City railroads Waterloo line on Fifth South street between Slate and Main streets The 815 car from town with Sam Read as motorman motor-man came along at a good clip and was almost upon the sleeper before he was discovered The motorman did his best to stop the car but the distance dis-tance was so short It was Impossible However by some lucky chance the sleeper was not run over by the wheels but was hit by the front of the car and knocked off tho track lie was picked up in a semiconscious state and taken to tho Holy Cross hospital hos-pital where Dr J S Richards attended at-tended to his injuries The doctor said his hurt a slight cut on the head was very trifling and that ho would beall right In a day or two His stupor the i I doctor said was caused more by Intoxication In-toxication than by the Injury he received re-ceived from the car He was too I drunk to give any account of himself further than to tell his name He had in his pocket the return half of a railroad rail-road ticket to Bingham of yesterdays date Drunken Man Who Was Saved President Cameron of the Rapid rranslt company said yesterday that an East Side citizen told him since the Plerson runover that he had saved a drunken man from a similar fate several sev-eral weeks previous lie was driving along Seventh South when his horse shied and on giving more particular attention to the roadway noticed a man lying 1 across the street car track unconscious In drunken slumber The I citizen got out pulled the man offVhe rails and then telephoned for the police po-lice who came and hauled the drunk to the stationhouse > |