Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — Kidnaped by Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Kidnaped by Locomotive.

“The wild ride of Jim Phelps”— Jim almost wishes he had done it for the movies now —was told the other day. Phelps Is a farmer living five miles northwest of Momence, 111. Driving along in the rain; in a closed buggy, he was suddenly snatched from a soft seat In the rig and deposited on a precarious perch on the pilot of a rushing locomotive. He hung on for ten miles, to Solllt, 111. He has not seen his horse and buggy since. He had only a few minor bruises. The engineer of (he train, a Chicago ft Eastern Illinois freight, did not know a collision had occurred. —Chicago Dispatch to the Philadelphia Record.