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Show A CAR'S WILD PLUNGE. A. Hand Car Kan Away Down a Steep Mountain, and Two Men Were Killed. A thrilling ride down the mountain on a runaway hand car, a broken asJe, and Seven men were flung from the track at a curve down a ravine 30 feet deep. Two were killed outright, and the other five sustained serious injuries. Early in the morning Frank Eck, a track foreman on the Lehigh Valley railroad, and six laborera set out from Beaver Meadow for Hazle Creek on a hand car. The road down the mountain has a pitch of 50 feet to the mile and is skirted by deep ravines. There are numerous small bridges that span torrent eaten abysses, and sharp curves are plentiful. Four stout men seized the handles that work the machinery, and the car started down the road at a keen pace. The air was frosty, and the rails were slippery. The momentum that the brawny arms at the pumps gave the car, added to the incline, made the human freighted vehicle fairly Bpin. When half way over the journey, the brake block snapped asunder. There was now no way to check the flying car's speed. On it rushed, and around curves it sped. The men were alarmed and endeavored en-deavored to slacken the speed, but they could not accomplish much. They tried to stop the wheels by holding the handles of the pump machine, but that failed. Suddenly they dashed around a short curve where a high precipice yawns below. be-low. They were in sight of the Black Creek station, and they thought the operator op-erator might help them. At that moment an axle, overburdened by the terrific run, broke down; and the car and the seven riders shot over the wall. Down they went 30 feet and landed land-ed on the rocky bed of a creek. Men from the Black Creek station rushed to where the wrecked car and the seven men lay. Six of the workmen were bleeding and unconscious from the shock. |