Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — A BABY'S LEAP [ARTICLE]

A BABY'S LEAP

Through the Window of a Railroad Car Going at Full Speed. There is one lucky baby and a happy, mother in Callifornia tonight, says the Stockton Independent The mother and babe were passengers on the Southern Pacific north-boundpassanger train yesterday afternoon. The child, which was about a year old, was standing in its mother’s lap looking out of the open window. It gave ohe of those sudden springs to which babies are addicted, and, before the mother could' clutch it went out through the open window. The shriek of the mother brought a brakeman to the spot who pulled the bell-cord, and the train, which was going at full speed, was checked as soon as possible. The conductor soon made hi 9 appearance, and when the case bad been explained to him ordered the train to bs backed up slowly till the spot was reached where the baby had made its frightful plunge. To the surprise of all the sound of the baby’s cries was heard, for it was supposed that it would be instantly killed. ... Nearly every man on the train jumped off to search for the little one, which was found sitting by the roadside crying lustily. It was soon placed in its mother’s arms, perfectly uninjured, not even showing a scratch as an evidence of its narrow escape from death.