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Show A CAR'S WILD P LUNGE. A. Hand Car Kan Away Down a Steep Mountain, and Two Mei f Were Killed. A thrilling ride down : 1 he mountain on a runaway hand car, a bi oken axle, and seven men were flung fr om the track at a curve down a ravine 3(i 1 feet deep. Two were killed outright, anj i the other five Sustained serious injurielf 3 Early in the morning Frll lank Eck, a track foreman on the Lehigh j IValley railroad, and six laborers set ou I p from Beaver Meadow for Hazle Creek1 1 f on a hand car. The road down the mom1! litain has a pitch of 50 feet to the mile ai.1 ad ia skirted by deep ravines. There are ? numerous small bridges that span torren it eaten abysses, and sharp curves are pleiil ptiful. Four stout men seized If fhe handles that wnrlr t.Vin mar-.TiiriArv n.m! ll the Car started down the road at a keen p.j s pe. The air was frosty, and the rails werji k slippery. The momentum that the bra0 7 arms at the pumps gave the car, addte & to the incline, made the human freight Vehicle fairly spin. When half way o0, i ver the journey, the brake block snapped' s asunder. There won nnw no wattn r.htc' .. M k the flying Car's speed. On it rushed, anV M around curves it sped. The men were t , planned and endeavored en-deavored to Blacken thef speed, but they could not accomplish m Jch. They tried to stop the wheels by hor ding the handles of the pump machine, br - that failed. Suddenly they dashed I around a short curve where a high prec : ipe yawns below. be-low. They were in sigi at of the Black Creek station, and theyjj, thought the operator op-erator might help them, j At that moment an &xi ie overburdened by the terrific run, brok 9 down, and the car and the seven ride:. ' ra SQot ver the wall. Down they went 30 feet and landed land-ed on the rocky bed of a creek. Men from the Blacf h Creek station rushed to where the wre" ! 3ed car and the seven men lay. Six ci H the workmen were bleeding and uncof ascious from the shock. Ij1 . i V ' |