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Show CLUTCHING SMOKESTACK SHVES MAN FROM DEATH BENEATH TRAIN WHEELS iOGK ISLAND 111., Oct. 13. Presence of mind in clutching and holding to the smokestack of an engine, saved Horris Herbrandt of Edington, 111., from being ground tojrieces under the wheels of the train at Milan, 111: As it was, he escaped with a bad shaking up and some cuts and bruises. . V Mr. Herbrandt was driving a team attached to a farm "vagon He didot see the .train; "and the horses were on A he tracks before the driver noticed his danger. : The wagon waK struck squarely and dumped to one' side of the track. Herbrandt was thrown twenty feet in the air and turned bveiand over. He fell on top of the , boiler and managed to embrace the smokestack and hold on till the train was broughtto standstill . |