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Show JUMP FOR THEIR LIVES. Motorman So Warns Passengers as His Car Runs Away. PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 12. Through the parting of a brake chain on a Montavllla electric car today the motorman lost control con-trol of the car at a gravel switch with a dead end. Ho opened the car door and warned all tho pafaongcrs to Jump for their lives. Only two followed his nd-vlco. nd-vlco. ono a woman, who rolled down an embankment and was sovcrcly bruised; tho other a man. who fell on tho track behind the car and received severe cuts about tho head. Tho paasengere who remained re-mained In tho car wcro unhurt, tho car coming to an abrupt stop from striking the ties, at tho end of tho track This is tho. snmo lino on which ono man was killed and thirty Injured last week |