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Show Child's Wild Ride. (From the Princeton. Mo., Telegraph.) Dashing along ftf the rate of forty miles an hour, a little child took a wild ride on southbound Rock Island passenger pas-senger train No. 3. The infant climbed on the engine pilot as the train left Calmer, Cal-mer, Iowa. About four miles out Engineer En-gineer Swanson noticed a piece of dress goods flying from the front of his engine, en-gine, and on investigation it proved to be a child hanging to the iron bars of the pilot with both hands. The train to stof.ped and when the engineer, with a lump in his throat, took thr youngster from its perilous position it was laughing and said it had a good buggy ride and was "holding on tight," Conductor Hoxie, who "took charge of the child, said it was the most exciting episode in his forty years of railroading. railroad-ing. The child belonged to a family named Johnson at Calmer. |