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Show RII BY TRAIN ESCAPES DEATH A young man by the name of John LaRose, from Salt Lake, had a hairbreadth hair-breadth escapo from Instant death lust evening by being run over by a Southern Pacific freight train. He 13 now in the hospital with a crushed hip and a possible compound fracture of tho leg. LaRose has a brother llvins in this city on Monroe avenue, who, it is said, was with him at the time of his accident. The two were attempting to board a west-bound freight as it pulled across Seventeenth strout John LuRose made several Ineffectual attempts at-tempts to grasp the side rounds of tho cars as they passed him and several times missed his bold, and was thrown to the ground. Finally making a last effort he caught hold of a brace and tried to draw himself up on the car. The train, however, waa moving too swiftly and LaRose was hurled to the rallK below. As if by a miracle he landed on his hands and knees over the rail and the trucks of the first car, striking hiln In the blp, throw him clear of the track to safety. Ho was so badly injured that tho ambulance ambu-lance was called, and he was hurried to the general hospital for attention. |