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Show MAN MADE A DARING LEAP Pittsburgh Iron Worker Has a Close Call From Death When He Jumps From Bridge. Altoona, Pa. Believing that the Twelfth street bridge crossing the Pennsylvania tracks was on fire and that he was going to be burned up unless he escaped, W. J. Beale, an iron worker of Pittsburgh, plunged from the bridge to the tracks below and directly in front of an express train that was pulling out of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania station. The man's escape from death was miraculous. He sustained only a sprained ankle, as the -engineer of the train shut off the power as soon as he saw the man leaping through the air, and the engine en-gine pushed the man off the tracks on account of the slow speed at which it was going. Beale was arrested ar-rested for trespassing on the railroad property, but was later released and sent home. |