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Show TRIES 10 SAVE SHIELD; IS KILLED BY TRAIN EL R. Weflman Victim of Peculiar Pecu-liar Accident While (ioin to Railroad Station. CHICAGO Jan. 7. An umbrella which threatened to escape his grasp In a sudden sud-den gust of wind while he wua walking down the tracks to the Rcrwyn station at 8.30 o'clock yesterday morning caused H. R Wellmun. u designing; engineer em ployed by the eatern Electric company, to be killed by an eastbound Chicago, BurlliiKton - tjulncv express train. Threatened His Shield. Mr. Wellrhan left his home, midway between be-tween Riverside and Rcrwyn, shortly after 8 o'clock. Intending to board a local train for the company's plant to Twenty-se. Twenty-se. ond street and Forty-eighth avenue As hfl walked down the trucks In th. heavy rain a westbound train approached and he stepped over to the adjoining track to let It pass As he did so the air rtihliiK after the train caught under his umbrella and threatened to wreck It. Tries to Save Umbrella Striving to save the umbrella from de-stru. de-stru. tloti. Mr W. Ilman did not notice the 'in niing through train behind hlrn and It eras fairly upon him before th. engineer s warning blast was sounded He tried to leap off the track, but he was Caught and dragged under the wheels, D; Fc'm WH walking a short dlstunco behind and ilt,,.,:ich ,,. ,, ,,,,i wUih-.m the accident he earn" upon the body as he made his way to the. station and notified the conductor of a local train The through train w ns brought to a stop as soon an possible, and the crew came back t' give assistance Leaves Widow and Son. The body was removed to Postlewalt's undertaking rooms In Bcrwvn, and arrangements ar-rangements were made for an Inquest Mr. Wellman, who was about years old Is survived by his widow and "one son' wniard Wellman, who is 7 yean old |