Deseret Evening News | 1901-12-28 | Page 6 | Stranger than Fiction

Sm HI II gl I 1 than 1 n It t Is IH not often ottell that lint a man experienc experiences IX porion es I the remarkable sensation of ot being struck nut thrown feet tent Into Inlo I tho thin air ale by a locomotive running thirty miles attIcs an nil hour alights on a wagon wn tongue Is you run away with by a spirited team nod and comes out alive Nois lint Itar a IL teamster performed the tho feat today anti and escaped with only slight bruises bru laos Mr Mi Is engaged by Con Contractors on tractors Cape Cale St Son and was hauling lumber When crossing the Chicago anti and Northwestern Hallway trucks tracks nt tt street he lie failed aIled to observe locomotive runnIng wild coming down the track The engine struck the wagon loath load of lumber homier square MIllard In Inthe tie the center Wagon lumber and Team ster went high Into lie tho air nir doug clung to the lit lines and went up Ill as ns tilt far as their length anti and came caine down astride tho lie pole Tile The horses es escaped and started to run away aua After going a block they hey were stopped A 1 hundred men muon and others witnessed the lie occIdent accident timid and believed that son Hon had been horribly mangled In Instead Instead stead It was found lint ho lie ivas IH alive anti and when assisted from the broken wagon he could walk An n examination revealed that the Orti he lie sus sustained atm a bruised leg timid and attn arm wild sail that lint when ihen he lie was up In time the air itil ho could look Ionic down In the top of thin tho smokestack of the locomotive and thought sura aturo ho lie wits was going to be killed The locomotive was one of the largest owned hOt the Northwestern and was ivas on the Ito way iva from the north to Chi Chicago cago eago to Kf go Into tho tue repair Mil Milwaukee waukee Sentinel