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Show $ f i fl "JT5S IV Man With Foot Caught! in a Switch Is Crushed Yonkers. N. Y Dec. 22. A series of annual incidents attended tho accidental acci-dental death of an unidentified man at tuc Glenwood sLition of the New ork Central shortly before midnight, rho man caught his foot in a switch and his violent struggles and frantic shouts were unavailing to save him from being run down bv a locomotive-which locomotive-which crushed his legs and left him writhing beneath the wheols as it halted. Efforts to extricate the victim fall- ' ing. an ambulance sugreou crawled I under the locomotive and, crouching beneath the pony axle, by the light of i flickering lanterns began amputating the crushed limbs. Tt took twentv minutes to complete the operation under un-der which the victim fainted Tho man died later at the hospita'l from shock. |