People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — SIX FEET FROM DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

SIX FEET FROM DISASTER.

■ Train Stopped at the Edge of a Burned Bridge in Missouri. I St. Louis, Mo., March 27.—Passengers • who reached Si. Louis yesterday morn- | mg by the Wabash train from Omaha tell a thrilling story of a narrow escape ; from disaster. The eastbound train [which leaves Omaha in the afternoon I and is due to arrive in St. Louis early ; the following morning had just passed i fripiett, an ihsigrrificant station near [ Brunswick, Mo., when the engineer, I alter rounding a sharp curve, saw a [ sheet of-flame rising from between the I tracks a few yards ahead of him. The train was brought to a sudden stop. A • half dozen feet in front of the engine i lose a tongue of flame, and beyond it yawned a geventy foot gap in the Yellow river trestle, which had just been destroyed by fire. The fire is thought to have been started by would-be train robbers.