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Show II iiuEB LIVES ' ! IjMIKIT PERIL Negro Makes Nearly Successful Attempt to Wreck New York Flyer. HAMMOND, Ind., Sopt. 4. Tho lives of 200 persons on tho New York flyer on the Michigan Central, leaving Chicago Chi-cago yesterday noon, were jeopardized 1)3' a negro who gave his name as Michael Durban and said lie livod in Terre Haute, Ind. Tho offort to wreck tho flyor took place near East Gar3', whero the train takes water b3' means of a scoop from a trough buried between the rails. Section Sec-tion men discovered' thnt heavy timbers had been wedged into the trough in such a wa3' that when the scoop was projected to catch tho water the timbers tim-bers would be picked up and thrown into tho wheels of I he conches. Tho negro was found near 1)3' and admitted his guilt. |