Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1915 — Passengers in Dire Peril. [ARTICLE]

Passengers in Dire Peril.

■ An exciting experience befell the passengers in a train traveling from Shrewsbury to Llanymynech, Wales, the other day. The train was derailed while crossing the girder bridge that spans the River Severn at Shrawardine, and all the passenger coaches were thrown against the sides of the iron bridge. The passengers’ position was perilous, as the bridge is 60 feet above the river, and even when they escaped from the coaches they were faced with the danger of falling through the spaces between the girders of the bridge into the water below. Although* none of the passengers were actually injured, many women among them were greatly alarmed. One fell out of the train on one of -the girders of the bridge. She was saved from falling into the river by a Shrewsbury solicitor, who managed to grasp her as she clutched the girder; but she was so frightened that she could not be persuaded to release her hold for nearly half an hour.