Deseret Evening News | 1907-08-21 | Page 9 | A Long Swim

r o V A Ion Swim A tramp has beaten heaten nib all al known knowlI records by b swimming 2 27 miles In II 30 minutes minute He ha I did not mean to do It He lie merely merly steal ride from St Louis tried to a n Luis to Chicago on the rear of ot a locomotive tender When the train trin started ho fell ten over Oer backward through the open Opel man maui manhole manhole hole unto Into 1110 tho the water tank The hB of ot the train drowned his hIl cries for tor help and ho was obliged to 10 swim until the lies Ihl stop sial was wait rescued reached at Alton Al nhen When taken out ho was nearly dead d d but bul the engineer was ff so 10 unfeeling as 1 to call his attention to the fact act that tho water wan only ani four tour feet deep and ann he might have stood up Uli Ul Tho Tim conductor alto also unfeelingly I asked him for his hlA ticket but the thc tramp said he did not come by b br rail but by water Youths Companion