| Show A THRILLING INCIDENT A train ri info lot car ic ECI caio or of nio ilia M an t misplay of tho the st louis democrat ar april allo 01 li J ir IV G green or cairo who in tile city cily informs lis in that an all ne ac aident occurred on tile tho cacio short line railroad in uhichi a number of passengers pils made a miraculous escape tile train coining north was fifty fily two miles tins this sila of cairo and lio miles bioni aiom carbondale it at I 1 ouro cloA yesterday when in ill turning i a short curve ilia sleeping ele carin ilia rear became uncoupled the barnico bal nico of ilia train proceeded oled some digance di lanco tance wore before ll 11 the a mishap was discovered mr morgan tile tho cin conductor ductor as ai soon coon as he be discovered unit ilia die sleeper was detached turned turri cul liis his train lack back at once lie ile knew thit llie northward north waid bound freight train was close behind beli ind and ther ewas no linn to lose the passengers in the pullman were all n leep and know of ilia accident ident or ilia danger impending irom tile approach of tile ilia fici fic glit ight train As the tiala tile clec sleeping ping car aicard like I 1 attain corning coming at it 1 ull full he curve A collision colli aion vin as ilac incisi li bablo 1 hero was but bill one way to savo ea 0 tile sleeping passengers and that thai wn was to thein and get them to jump out upon terra firina morgan lost no time lima in thinking about it bit leaped front from liis ilia train and running to the sleeping car used liis his stentorian I 1 cleo cico in ill nw acaling tho ile rd ed the sides of the car and called upon ilia to get stanlY and save themselves by roping jumping it out by y this timo time morgans train had backed to the sleeper and it was quickly coupled but it at the moment tile w freight liam came in sight thundering around ilia hie curve abo passengers were ily by this time wide amaie and coneiolus cone con cious ious of tile tho pel poil il of their situation they leaped to tile the ground liefter saliter pet I 1 melly inell como NN nith lit their nether garments fluttering p in tile morning breeze somo some wilh md r lothes lit in theia hands some biffi ono ona leg in their pants p it n is and tho ill a other ot her out ou t there v n a it a t i in ki for the ceremonies of toilet death was 1 tt l iring nt at through the iha great glaring ayo I 1 ye of the headlight they deprang brorn ilia car without knowing where they would lind any place was krefl rable to tho the sleeping car mr jewitt wilcox went out like a flying trapeze performer alighting in it a pond and going up tip to hn his neck in mud and water ath others ers alighted on all fours anti and all got out before beffi a tile train struck tho ilia car the crash of the collision wm was terrible the locomotive of the freight train was ilia car reduced to splinters and two of tho the passenger coaches coa clies badly damaged luckily none of the pa passengers worn were seriously injured if they had remained ft a moment longer in tho ilia sleeping car half of them would undoubtedly have been killed or crippled for life mr air wilcox with it fi slight contusion mr green received a black ablack eye front froin ilia his leap and several beveral others were scratched ani som bruised all it is a miraculous escape and unite in aberi ascribing bing the preservation of their lives to the hie presence of mind and energy of conductor or ll morgan orsan it his is the practice among waggish printers when n green greenlan tan enter the office to play a joko joke on him by sending him on an errand to a neighboring office lur something thing that he would lie be auto not to find and return with n etli some boino strange artic article m or other thinking that in printers phrase lie ile had got what lie ile was sent for A juke joke of this tort sort was wai recently perpetrated lit in a neighboring town A boy who wis was rather vcr dint went to learn ilia printing wiliness and one of the hie arnan loving borl sent him with a dili dieh di li one lay day to nc a certain erllin editor to borrow agillon a gill of 11 tito editor understanding tile gamo returned it picture of a donkey doii kry tho the first editor finding himself rather come over liver td his hii kits its to work to think how tic he t li cull get ert even with tile the other at list last lie called ali tho lad ind and told him to go and ami tell 1111 LL 11 tha editor iwas editorial that lie ho wanted not tho ilia cil 11 |
