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Show JUMPED JUST IN TIME. Section Mn Bare Their Llvei, but Their oar Is Demolished. Tuesday about noon ah accident, which came within an ace of re-! re-! suiting fatally, occurred on the U. P. track four miles south of Brig-; Brig-; ham. It seems that the north-bound passenger was two hours late. With the hope of making up a little time, she was bounding ahead at a fearful rate. Around a curve in the road just ahead; wero section foreman" Baird of Willaid ar.d his meni They Wftre leisurely pumping theit hand car toward Brlgbarm Suddenly the;' heard the deep rumbling of an approaching train and before they had time to stop and throw their car off the track, the mad, snorting monster dashed round the curve and in a twinkling was upon them. The men instantly jumped for their lives. But not a moment too soon, They had barely b truck the ground when the train plunged into their ill-fated car, knocking it into d, thousand Bplinters, which were strewn along the track for a hundred yards. The men were white with fright, but nono were injured, as they all rolled Bafely to the ground before their hand car was thus unceremoniously uncere-moniously demolished. |