Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — Extraordinary Endurance. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Endurance.

An accident attended with the most extraordinary circumstances occurred on the Northern Central Railway, near Troy, Pa., Sunday night. A tramp named James M. Bowers was walking on the track toward that place. Being tired and hungry, he sat down by the side of the railroad and'fell asleep. When he awoke he attempted to get up, but, as he said when discovered, found that he could not his legs. He had thrown them across the rail in his sleep, and a train had run over them. One was nearly severed below the knee, and the other was broken No traid was in sight, nor had he heard the noise of any train passing. He took his knife from his pocket, and cut the skin and fle*h that still held his one leg, severing it entirely. He says he lay there unable to move, wholly conscious and suffering the most intense agtny, for at least an hour. Finally he heard a train approaching. He had a match in his pocket and a newspaper. He lighted the paper when the train came in sight, and signaled by wavmg it. The engineer saw the light, and stopped the train. Bowers was taken on board and carried to Troy. He never lost consciousness, and, when & doctor was summoned, who pronounced anolher amputation of the severed leg necessary, Bowers refused to take any anaesthetic, and coolly subjected himself to that operation and to the setting of the bones in his broken leg. He was removed to the County-House, and it is thought he will recover.— Elmira (IF. Y.) DispatchJo Jf. Y. World.