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Show ROCK HANGING FROM WmE ALMOST' BRAINS CARMAN BSSSSBBBBBSBSSBSaBBSa Boulder Suspended by String: Crashes Through Car Window, Just Missing fllotorman's Head. A peculiar accident occurred on the East Waterloo street car line last night. In which Motorman Charles Wilcox had a narrow escape from Injury. The car was traveling toward town on the 8 o'clock trip, and was going at a fair rate of speed. Suddenly the window In front of the motorman was broken with a crash, on a level with his face, and a rock as large as a man's fist fell Into the vestibule. ' - Investigation showed that a string had been attached to the rock, and the rock had been suspended pn a level with the motorman's head, from the trolley wire. " ' ' Wilcox was not Injured, probably on account of the low rate of speed at which the car was traveling. Had the car been traveling at the usual rate, the boulder would have struck him fairly in the face. It is not known whether the rock was suspended from the trolley wire by design and with malicious intent, in-tent, or by children, who had thrown the rock over the wire in play. |