Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — A Remarkable Escape from Death. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Escape from Death.

James R. Hutchinson, of Newark, was caught upon the cowcatcher of an engine one night last week in Newark, and got off at another stAtfon and went home He said to-day: *on my way home I started to pass around a train. Just then I heard some one shouting. The next moment I saw a flash of light -I knew nothing after that until I awoke and found myseif lying on the beam above the plot of the locomotive I was dazed, but saw that I was at the Market street Station. The' engine was standing still. I slid down the cowcatcher and staggered alomg. until J got into Market street TWo young men wiped the blood off my face, brushed the dirt from my clothes and helped me to walk home. I must have lain on my back on the pilot, because the blood trpm a gash:on my forehead flowed over the top Of ifiy head.' -I shall get ont of the house in a few. daysi— Hew York Herald.