Show saved by one chance in ten million the accidents that astonish railroad men are those that happen without hurting anybody such a mishap occurred to tho lake shore flier from cleveland coming into chicago one saturday morning A steel tiro slipped from one of the driving wheels of the engine with the train going at full speed this was extraordinary hut that it should slip off the wheel over the connecting rod and fall clear of the track instead of wrecking the train wag simply miraculous the driving wheel revolves say four times every second covering that same second 80 feet of the rail fracture the tire with its deep inner flange made to keep it on the rail and try with that big connecting rod rising and falling two feet every quarter of a second and the broken tire rolling 80 feet every bec eec ond to make the tire fall off the wheel and over the connecting rod so it shall |