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Show IS CRUSHED BY JUNK IRON Man In a Freight Car Released Whert Cries Attracted Train , Crew. Lafayctto, Ind. When a west-bound Wabash freight train was passing through Lafayotto ono day early tho shrloks of a man In distress wero heard and tho train was brought to a standstill. When tho train crow investigated It, was found that James Flsk of Spring, field, Mass., aged tw.onty-four, had be-como be-como Imprisoned In a car of looso Junk Iron. Fish had been "beating" his way on, tho train nnd a short tlmo boforo tho cries woro hoard tho train had brokon In two. When tho cars camo to-gethor to-gethor with a crash a mass of Junk Iron slid over on top of risk's legs. At tho tlmo ho was sleeping In tho end of a gondola car and It wob lm. posslblo for him to frco himself. Ho could not bo rescued until tho car had boon bumped several times to Jar tho mass of Iron awny from his logs. Ho was taken to tho hospital In a. terribly crushed condition. His cries aroused hundreds of people from their sloop. It Is probable ho will recover. |