Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — An Unpleasant Predicament. [ARTICLE]

An Unpleasant Predicament.

“Yes, I was in quite an accident once,” said the baggageman, as he stood in the door of his car waiting for his train to start; “it was a queer accident, too, and I never want to see the like of it again. You see' that long white spot there on the side of my head—that ridge? "Well, that was the result of the little bust-up I’m telling about. It was on the Lake Shore a good many years ago. On, my run one day I had a sleeper—a corpse, you know—and as it was a through passenger I put it in the extreme rear end of my ear. Nothing unusual happeued till we got this side of Adrian a Eiece— that was before the air line was uilt—when We struck a Cow oh the track and got throwed off. It was right on a high bank, top, and we went to the bottom with a good deal of a crash, I tell you. Trunks and boxes flew aroufld there pretty lively. One of ’em struck me there where you see that scar. But the wont of it was the sleeper’s box broke open as it came tumbling down to my end of the car, and the passenger

stuck his head out to see what was going (m. I wouldn’t a-minded thatif he hadn’t eome quite so close to me. His banged-up box stopped right side of me, and his face came right down on mine. It makes me crawl yet to think of it. And I had to stay there twenty minutes before the boys could get at me, with that clammy dead face, two wteeks gone, up agin mine. I believe my hair’d aturned gray if there hadn’t been so much blood on it from that hole in my head. No more mixes like that in mine, please.” —Chicago Herald.