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Show V ' " ' , vV .u ' r ! :., Officials of the Harriman roads are having strenuous .experiences handling the immense army of colonists that are going west over their roads. Children are falling from trains getting lost, and trainmen running into Ogden are telling some interesting stories of the miraculous escapes of children.' Here are two of these stories- Seven little Lithcomhs In a depot mix, ' - One babe was left behind And then there were six. John Lltacomb, wife and seven children chil-dren arrived in Ogden yesterday. Whoa they boarded a train" at Denver bomid for the SUte of Washington they left one of their seven children In the public waiting room at the 'Union depot. The child Is 8 months of age, and the youngest of the family. "Where Is the baby,-John t' asked Mrs. Lithcomb as the train was leaving the depot yards. ' "He's around here somewhere," replied re-plied Mr. Lithcomb, as he searched among the bundles and valises piled on the seat in a corner of the car. '. "I'll bet you left him behind," said the wife. ' You mean that you may have left him behind,", he replied. v -, After a search of a few moments it was discovered that the baby had been forgotten. The conductor was cpjwjnled to and the train was stopped at Thirty-first Thirty-first street. .The depot oflficials . were communicated with by telephone. "The kid's here all right," telephoned tele-phoned E. P. O'Connell, depot agent of the Burlington- who volunteered to find the missing elild. ' "Can you bring him out!" asked the conductor. "Sure," said O'Connell. A switch engine was standing in the depot yards, and O'Connell, with the" baby in his arms, mounted to the- cab and was taken to the train at Thirty-first Thirty-first street. "The Litheombs came into Denver from some point on the Colors' lo & Southern in the south," says O'Connell, O'Con-nell, "and were bound for Seattle, Wash. They had to wait several hours in the depot, and had so many children to look after that they became excited." Playing at the open window of a tourist sleeping ear, three-year-old Thomas Webster of Cheyenne, lost bis balance' and fell, from Union Pacific passenger train No. 3, running at fifty miles an hour. Tho youngster escaped unhurt, and when picked up- a few min-. utes later, laughed and told his father he had "failed out of the window." ; The marvelous escape of the boy occurred oc-curred as tho train was speeding along at record clip.. Mr. Webster left Kansas Kan-sas City with his wife and three children. chil-dren. The. boy. Thomas, occupied a seat on tho right side of the tourist coach. - His mother and the other two children were in another part of the car, while an aunt was seated directly across the aisle from the little chap. . As the train was Hearing a station News Agent G. A. Wood, who was passing pass-ing through the car, noticed the boy playing by the open window. Just as tho news agent 'glanced at the child young Thomas lurched toward the open window. Dropping his armful of books, Mr. Wood jumped for the boy. The aunt across the aisle also saw the child's danger and tried to catch him. Botli were too late, however, and the little fellow shot through the window of the fast moving train. . The news agent pulled the emergency bell rope and. the train came to a stop within half a mile. ' A hand car was secured and the father,, wild with anxiety, accompanied by several trainmen, started back along tho track, expecting to find the mangled man-gled body of the boy. Instead they saw the little fellow standing beside a fence at the aide of the track, clapping his hands Joyously. "I failed out of the window, papa," he piped in his childish voice, and the big man, ears in his eyes and his voice choked with emotion, gathered the youngster in his arms and said: "That is the sweetest music I ever heard.' The only injury the boy sustained was a slight bruise on one arm. The escape of the child is regarded by the trainmen as nothing -short of niiraculous. Beside the track on which the westbound train was running was a strip of sand two feet in width between the rock ballast and the ties of the eastbound track. ' The boy in his fall struck this soft sand and thus escaped the death which threatened on either side., i - |