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Show aOOD WATERS fOonllnued from page 1 ) tha appearance of a log raft Juat aa ha waa 'about ta fir ap the alruggla, waa (old by H. D. Bell-roee. Bell-roee. M jraara aid. lira aaleamaa of Denver, upon hla arrival la Cherenne aarly today, following tha Burlington wrack near C taper, ta-per, Wyo, Thuraday night. Ballroaa waa la tba lavatory at tha front and of tha foremoat Pullman when tha train plunged Into tha awollen craak. So far aa ha knowa all of tha group of man alttlng In tha adjoining compartment compart-ment at tha tlma wera caught In tha trap and drowned. But aa tha rar went down lha window In tha lavatory waa ehattered and a wall of water poured In. Tha ear turned that aide downward and landed In tha bottom of tha flood: tha aaleamaa thought hla tlma had I eoma. Aa ha waa about to realm hlmaalf ta hla fata, however, thera waa anothet lurch and tha Pullman Pull-man rolled over onto tha ether aide. Aa It did ao, tha water ahot upward, aad with It went Ballroaa Ball-roaa clear to tha aurface. UNAILI TO MAKE HEADWAY. fully draaaed. and with tha lea cold water numbing hla muaclea, tha young man. though an expert . awlmmer, waa able to make little prograaa. Tan yard, from tha , ecene of the wreckage waa tha I ewlrllng torrent of tha North i Platte river. Beltroee waa carried Into It deeplte hla frantic efrarta. From that point ha floated three-quartera three-quartera of a mile with tha force of tha current preventing him from affecting a landing. I All but exhaueted. ha derided ha ! might aa well hava remained In tha rar and died without a atruggle. Ha waa In tha act of giving hlm-aelf hlm-aelf up aa loet when luck once mora flew to hla reecue. The moon, breaking through the clouda revealed a raft coming hla I way. He waa unable lo go ta It, , but It went ta him. Tha drowning, man graeped. not at tha proverbial el raw. but tha aolld eubetanoa that If ha could hold an long enough, ! might plana hla name oa tha Ual af aurvlvora. LAND ON aOLIO 0 ROUND. Ha crawled aa top and hung on deaperatlely for what Beamed ta ba houre. finally, far down tha j river, the Improvleed lifeboat came i to reat In a curve In tha bank. I Ballroaa managed ta gat aahora and drag hlmaalf np the aide of a hill and to a nearby aheep camp. Tha eheepherdcre had gone ta the reecue of tha wreck , victim.; the camp waa deaerted. ' The lone man dried hlmaalf aa beat ha could and went to bed. Friday morning, when he awakened awak-ened he found that. In being ahot through the broken window, hla cheek had eoma In eentact with a )utlng place of glaaa and that a long gaah had been aut In It. Alee, ha waa covered with alloie. aand and greeee. Taken, later In the day. ta tha town of Olenrock, he apent three hourg In trying to get hla body clean, and then bought a new ault of clothea. The Denver man told hla atory with a almpllrlty that only aerved o emphaalae ta dramatic feature.. He aatlmated that Juat prior to lha dlaaater tha train had been going forty mllea an hour. He aald that other aurvtvore - with whom he talked? Friday declared they aaw the care pile up on each other with tremendoua force and that tha Impart and tha resulting crlea and erreante were lo terrible terri-ble to dcacrlbe. |