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Show CHEATS DEATH BY CLEAR GRIT Injured Switchman Crawls Through Tunnel at Edge of Third Rail NEW TORE, Jan. H Clifford Bliss, a switchman, Thursday night fell off a Long island train near the Brooklyn end of the Blast river tunnel, tun-nel, breaking an arm and several ribs and Suffering Internal Injuries. Fifteen hours later he appeared at the oilier end Of the tunnel in Manhattan, Man-hattan, after having crawled on hands and knees through the tube, dodging trains and keeping a war eye on th1'-third th1'-third rail A track walker found him huddled unconscious. In a safety niche between the rails and the tunnel tun-nel wall. POTGR1 oi r SLEEP Huddled in the narrow semi-circular concrete safety nlrhe, he had doggedly dogged-ly fought ff the allurements of sleep through the lonp hours. To sleep meant perhaps to fling his ice-coated sicevo or his hand .-igalnsl the third rail, or to fall in the path of swiftly moving trains. Rllss. -who is 22. and the sole support sup-port of an aged mother, related some f the ti rrbrs he experienced after he had regained consciousness I ciawleil," In- snd and Willi every ev-ery breath muttered a prayer that I ivould be able lo ge through. 1 l ROAR UV 'The manhole they found me in Is lust wide enough for two men to dand together, and 1 was o tired and n such agony from my injuries that I would have given anything to lie lown But the hole was too narrow. "I knew that the third rail was :nlv. Inches away, so I prayed to God :o help me keep my consciousness a ml ny courage. I did not faint at any Ime. although I was very near It at Imes. Moro than 60 trains must inye passed me during the night. " oo |