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Show BOTH LiS CUT Off BY TRAIN ! Andrew ktan Is file Victim. Was Lying Partly Across Track at Coppar Belt Line. Nothing Known of His Antecedents as He Had Arrived in Bingham Bing-ham the Day Before. Andrew Anderson was run over by a train on the Copper Belt line near Bingham about 2 o'clock yesterday morning and lost both legs at about the knees. The man was lying with his lower limbs across the track when the train struck him, and the supposition Is that he was 'asleep. He was picked up by the trainmen after the wheels had passed over him, and Dr. Stockham of Bingham was summoned. The man was too weak from loss of blood to be brought to one of the hospitals and he was attended to by Dr. Stockham. One leg was cut off above the knee and the other just below. Nothing is known as to the antecedents ante-cedents of the man. He was a stranger at Bingham and, It is sald. had arrived in own only tho day before. He Is a native of Sweden and speaks very broken bro-ken English. It is not known whether he has any friends or relatives in this part of tho country. As soon as the man Is able to be moved he will be sent to one of the hospitals in this city. |