Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Just Escaped Death. [ARTICLE]

Just Escaped Death.

This, thrilling sensation of being wedged In the points of a railway line and seeing a train bearing down on him, was experienced at Crewe the other night, by a signal-fitter on the London & Northwestern railway, writes a correspondent. He had been sitting on the line laying cables when the points were pulled over for g train to pass, and his flesh was tightly gripped. He was hopelessly held down and in Intense agony when he heard the oncoming train. / The man nearly fainted with pain, but he shout ed the attention of some men, but they could not release him. Taking the situation in at a glance, one of the men some distance off risked his life by leaping on the train, scrambling up into the guard's van, and applying the brakes. The train stopped a few yards from the signal-fitter. Even then the man was pot out of his trouble, for the signals had to be pulled off before he could be released.