Show 0 P 4 CAUGHT ON A TRESTLE HUMAN 1 SWISS SWING safes SAYES TWO MEN HANG BY ARMS HOLD HOLO ING BOY WHILES TRAIN DASHES OVER HEADS st loula louls when A C ond and harry d with a basket and a old boy were caught on a trestle over a flooded in let at chautauqua ill III chev saved their lives and the life of ek a boy by banging to the trecile trec tre tle cacti each by one arm and holding the lad between them hile a train rumbled past herren and his sister mrs bertha rtha leonard and her little boy raymond ere are visiting at the home v helnn and a raymond wont went down to Chau to visit St alders 1 A the engine struck the basket nother in law they tied up their launch at west bluff and crossed the bluff line trestle trostle to the chautauqua grounds when they started to return home they knew know no regular train wax was due and walked out on the trestle without hesitation they were half way across the structure which ie Is 60 feet lung long and 40 feet high when a freight train rounded the sharp curve at west bluff within a few yards oi of the trestle florren was walking ahead holding the boye boys band hand was just behind them carrying an empty basket jn in his arm they heard the rumble beyond the bluff the next instant the angine came come into view Sta St aldera iders first impulse was to catch jp ip the boy and jump into the 15 feet of water in the inlet but he remembered that it waa was filled with logs logo and nags snags and be lie beat tato d therren taught the boy up with his hi left arm and nd jumped to a stringer p paralleling the rail rall at the end prid of the flea and was lo lowering cring himself over ther thor edge t with his burden caught the boy about the knees with his right arm and also lowered himself holding to a stringer with hia his left arm on which the basket bastet still hung there was nothing for th l feet to touch and they swung above the water each holding on by one arm and holding the boy between them with their other arms the engine struck the baket mad ad the wrench of the handle on ludgera lUd JUd dera ders arm almost bhole his hold and left Z t it scar acar the trembling of the trestle almost shook their grasp loose but the train was not long and they were able to bold hold on until it passed |