| Show fighting time for lives london april 21 one day an fn january last the hounds found a fox took the railway runs headed by some workmen the creature entered a railway tannel with tha whole pack in hot pursuit realizing realising Rea lising danger to his hounds the master galloped into the tunnel after them to iry to acad them olt but he could not Ahem up until he had travelled jullas quarter of a mile into the tunnel and at that moment a roar behind iain iaia of danger glancing Glah cing round lie saw the headlights afif an engine behind liim he put spurs to his horse and raced at the top of hiis honea speed jhc thc cowards the A DIM OF light showed the further entrance but a horse cannot gallop at forty miles an hour the race would have been short and the end tragic had not the en pine driver fortunately noticed the figure of the flying horseman silhouetted against the tunnels mouth he slackened speed and alio master and his horse were saved it was the engine driver in another repent accident alio raced for the life of is passengers at the manchester mail alo kings running borough station one morning early last yair the driver suddenly saw a light engine approaching rapidly from a crossroad there was no time to back no time to warn the driver of the advance in engine and it was impossible to get liis train past in time there was one only clapping on all the extra pos tibler he forced hiir train ahead and succeeded in getting all his passenger coaches past before the engine dashed into his train only the last mail van and the guarda van were derailed and no one badly hurt though the guard waa severely shaken at twerton Tw erton near bath MX months go cool and presence of mind raced time for the life of a little girl aho child was crossing the line at a level crossing when one of her i BOOTS GOT WEDGED tho main rail and the check rail and held her fast unable to move already a whistle and a distant roar announced the approach of an express train A young fellow named colgate ran to alie rescue and kneeling beside the terrified child tried to wrench alic boot free he could not and already the train was in sight with the utmost coolness cool nesa colgate began if unlace taft boot up roared the flying train and the bystanders made certain aliat liat both would perish but justin tanie alie foot was freed and the child and her deprang aside as the express dashed by less happy was the result of a race for hh e life of sirs erhart wife of mil stricken with sudden ihnen her doctors recommended her husband to immediately remove her to a warmer clin inte mr hired n special train and rushed southwards Kouth wards at fifty hilas an hour unhappily a fold wave ame from alie northwest and the bitter lc caught the train bravely they agli d oil FAST fig ot goow and at last reached inear destination but it was too A ot five hundred people their laces drawn idith anxiety stood all one 1 A T kr on a lonely spot on moor they were watching a party of diggers working against riad by a fall 0 ia 7 reworks extension it 1 t 0 tuy igat le the talc named men T and arc both caught rw wab in the fringe of the b neck P pa 1 ahnin clock ou wed jn T twi S unable to n antt ts the air ft 84 haur wont hy nd ft un P wak and weaker a r rf wort but bardl P tl OT could eh e h faigin L h hed H alm soil with ln K a attle movel nd eve ibe cranto that sahr m allt he awny ha ni and was obliged to ceabe jt lat at four on thursday morning the broke tl they Mo juit iut ahat rescue pales before tuc rw ord of the fight for the life of the frenchman giraud he and another man were at work excavating A WELL near lyons when a fall of ground from above brought tons of earth crashing down and the unhappy pair found them selva imprisoned in a bort of vault barely large enough 0 o permit them to acland upright there they were left in utter ilar kness without food drink or matches and with but the scantiest supply of air an attempt was at once made to dig out the well it was us eleis the earth constantly caved in it was decided t 0 alm first ali d connect the two by a driftway the i workers soon were able to hear gir 1 and he theirs but day after day passed and still it wag impossible to reach the prisoners after a week girards Gira companion died yet cach this disaster did not dismay the survivor the story was telegraphed all over the world and millions read daily of the rescuers desperate struggles to learh the imprisoned mati before death should claim him but falls of earth were constant even in the new shaft and it was not until alie thirtieth day that the unhappy giraud was reached a living skeleton cov ered with sores lie died in hospital A FEW DAYS LATER in a birmingham street the other evening an electric tram was coming briskly a slope sudden lyn small pet dog ran on to alic tram lines and after it rushed a lady the motor mana gong was ringing wildly he reversed ilia current and threw on his brakes but the rails were slippery with recent rain and the car still dashed on the passengers screamed with horror at tho tragedy that was imminent just at that very moment when it seemed as if nothing could save the woman from being killed on the spot a cyclist who had seen what was happen inga came up like the wind with outstretched arm he grasped the woman by the arm and swung her aside in alie ary k of time to escape the car as it went grinding by the cyclist who las ridden many races in his time eaid afterwards that his ten seconds race with that tramcar was the most exciting in bis recollection it i not so often that man has to fight time for hia own life but such was the fate of henry ward a young australian who while riding a half broken lionso near silver spring in queensland was thrown and badly injured hia head struck up on a gum log and he cut an artery besides sustaining a slight OF THE SKULL when he came to he recognized from hia growing weakness that lie waa heeding to death he tried in every way to atop alie flow but was only partially there was no help within fhe miles and that only a shep herds hut ward made up his mind to reach that hut and in some miraculous way he succeeded in doing BO on foot and under a burning sun most happily the was at home and he found incani to stop the bleeding and eave the plucky fellows life |
