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Show MAN STRUCK BY PASSENGER TRAIN A befuddled man, knocked unconscious uncon-scious by Southern Pacific No. 9. nest-bound, yesterdaj. In tho local ards, was not reported beyond tho office' of the railroad shops, probably prob-ably owing to the fact that the Individual In-dividual was not InBtantlv killed. Tho accident happened at 11:15 a. m. The man was Carl Eckborg. a machinist, ma-chinist, who is said to have been discharged dis-charged by the shop foreman and who, on receiving the wages due bira, had proceeded to have a good time. On his way home, the man reached a point near the new oil tank of the Southern Pacific and stopped out from behind a work car directly In front of the approaching passenger passen-ger train Engineer Henry Doon. ono of the most reliable engineers in the employ of tho company, observed him Instantly and threw on the emergency emer-gency brakes. The heavy train was running about twelve miles an hour and as Eckberg was only two car longths ahead it was impossible to stop Lbe train In time to avoid striking strik-ing him. Doon blow his whistle frantically but the fellow paid no heed to tho warning with tho result that the cowcatcher cow-catcher struck him a glancing blow and throw him into tho ditch with considerable force. Trainmon ran quickly to his side, believing that ho had been Instantly killed, but on find-life find-life still In him, the ambulance was called. In a few moments the amljulanco came clanging its way to the scene of the accident, and, bb it approached approach-ed the Injured man suddenly leaped to hlH feet and fled precipitately across tho tracks All efforts to Induce In-duce him to go to the hospital were unavailing and br his lnjurl.es apparently ap-parently consisted of a cut Bcalp and numerous bruises about the body, he was finally allowed to go home. oo |