Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Quick Wit Saves His Life. [ARTICLE]

Quick Wit Saves His Life.

Wilkesbarre, Pa.—The quick wit of fifteen-year-old Francis Scott of Avoca saved his life. While walking on the Delaware and Hudson railway he stepped out of the way of one train directly In front of a freight train which was backing up. There was no time to jump aside, so he threw himself flat in the middle of the track and 15 freight cars and the locomotive., passed over him.' The trainmen, expecting to find him dead, were surmised when be sprang up. He was xadly bruised and cut and his clothes sere torn from him, but no bones vere broken. - • \ . " 1 1 " - -