SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
A FOOLISH MAN’S NARBOW
ESCAPE. ‘ (Per Press Association.) Christoburcb, last night. When the train for Southbridge was slowing into Lincoln station this morning a man named Stephen Payne, who was standing on the platform, jumped on the metalled way. He had a horse standing on the opposite side, and thinking the train would frighten the animal, endeavored to get across, to hold it. The engine, however, closed on the man, and the cowcatcher struck him, picked him up, and dragged him forty yards along the ground between the inner rail and the edge of the platform. The train was pulled up and Payne rescued. He was consider" ably bruised and shaken, but not seriously injured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 2
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