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Show BRAKEMEN ON SNOWBOUND TRAIN FED ON RABBITS Hutchinson, Kan , Jan. 3. Marooned Ma-rooned for more than a wcok in a way car attached to an Atchihou, To-peka To-peka & Santa Fo freight train stuck fast in the snow near Laird In Western West-ern Kansas, two brakemen are living on jackrabbits. All efforts to roach the train, which Is on a branch line, have failed. As fust as rotary snow-plows snow-plows have cated thoir way through snow lying eight feet deep in the cuts, tho winds have drifted them full again. A largo forco of Mexicans with picks, shovels and dynamite was put to work today opening the line, Tho two lone brakemen guard the train, oboylng an order which forbids for-bids them to leave It save on a siding. sid-ing. Tho other members of the crow and two caboose passengers, both Russians, desortod-the train four days ago and floundered through the snow to Laird. |