Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1902 — A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

B. T. Clark Burled In a Train Wreck Escapes With Slight Injuries. B. T. Clark, formerly of Rensselaer, * bat now a conductor on the Lake Brie A Western railroad, had a narrow escape from death in a train wreck last week. He had charge of a freight train, and when near Boswell a journal on a oar In the middle of the train broke, and fifteen of the oars were thrown into the ditch. Conductor Clark was on one of the wreoked oars at the time and was thrown under ths wreckage, the oars being piled up all around him, but fortunately none of them hit him, and he esoaped with a skinned nose and a few bruises. It was a miracle that he was not killed.