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Show oo DOCTOR IN RACE WITH STORK HAS ! NARROW ESCAPE Dashing swiftly af-ro.sj the railroad rail-road crossing al Twenty-'dghth street and Pacific avenue, Lr. H. E. Worrell and a nurse, who was accompanying him, narrowly escaped es-caped death yesterday afternoon In a race with the stork. lr. Worrell was called upon a confinement COJM wes of the tracks. Seeing un opening in a i string of cars a crows the crossing, he drove his car through ihe opening, open-ing, taking rare that no engine was attached to eiiher end of the strinsr 1I ran directly In the path of a box car. thrown in an adjoining track by a switch crew, working I some distance from the crossing. ; Swinging hl.w ear quickly to avoid direct collision with the box car, Ir. Worrell escaped serious seri-ous damage His ojY w.i alde- swipeii. the impact or the col- ' Ilslon ymashing th fenders and wheels on the right side of the in. ii lune Dr. Worrell and the nurse accompanying ac-companying him escaped Injury and proceeded to the case they were on. c. i '. iiuye was i-i charge of I i he awttbti crew fhnt had thrown the box car In on the tfaCk ad-Joining ad-Joining the open string, police re -orJs show. |