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Show TllltOUN ritOM ('Alt; IMtLAh'S Til HIM: ItlllS W C Krnst, a brakeiuan on the. Tnpllfl branch of the San Pedro railroad, rail-road, narrowly escaped death Friday evening nt Lehl Junction, when ho was knocked trom tlio top or a boxenr' by tho coupling or two cars, Mr. Hi list had climbed to the brake, but finding It broken wns repairing It1 when his cur ran Into the standing cars. He was thrown between tho cars, striking Ills back on the coupling, coup-ling, breaking three ribs and otherwise other-wise being severely bruised The only llilng- preventing his death was that tlie ears were coupled and did not move Mr. KruHi. Is getting along nicely, but It will be some I line befori' ho will be ablo to go to work again. |
