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Show DEAD NAN'S BODY THROWS BRAKE And ; Brings Fast Moving Train in Subway to Sad-den Sad-den Stop, Throwing Passengers Pas-sengers From Seats. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. In a remarkable accident, Patrick Pellegrlne, a track walker, met his death In the Subway. The man was' hit by a northbound express train.. Ills body was thrown against a pillar and rebounded to the top of the second car. So great was the momentum of the train that the . prostrate form rolled along the roofs of alj the cars and fell from the rear coach, by some odd chance, directly on the "tripper" or safety safe-ty brake, brlnglgn the fast moving train to such a sudden stop that passengers were tnrewn tr; la their s sis Pelllgrlne. who lived at No. 295 Third street, Jersey City, was working with a squad of men clearing rubbish from the tracks. He was about fifty feet south of the Fifty-ninth street station, when a southbound express train was announced by the lookout. Pellegrine stepped between be-tween the pillars to a point of safety. Then, In Ignorance of the train coming In the other direction, went a step too far. directly In the path of the northbound express. Policeman Douglas proceeded with the train to the terminus and placed Motor-man Motor-man William IlurrU uniT aireston a technical charge of homicide. |