MARVELLOUS SLEEP-WALKING.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 74, 1 March 1879, Page 2

MARVELLOUS SLEEP-WALKING.

I An astonishing incident occurred a few nights ago (says the New York Times), during the run of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul express trains, which is due at Milwaukee at midnight. Among the passengers was a lady named Dixon, with a family of eight children, seven boys . one girl, the eldest of the former bei. fourteen years. As the train sped tc wards Milwaukee, the children one by one dropped asleep. The train passed Luke station, and was flying over the rails at the rate of fully thirty miles an hour, when the mother missed her eldost boy, and caught a glimpse of his slendor form as it passed through and out upon the platform. She hurried after him, but before she conld reach the platform he was gone. He had stepped off the car and plunged into the abyss of darkness that shrouded the train and its surroundings. The poor;; woman became frantic with grief when she realised that her idolized son, the eldest of her interesting flock, had encountered a danger from which the chance of escape from certain death was, perhaps, but one out of ono hundred. The remaining occupants of the car were also interested to sucii an extent that StO'iS were instantly taken to find the conductor, with the view of having the train stopped and backed to the scene of the accident. By the time this could be accomplished, however, Milwaukee was so close at hand that the conductor concluded to make the depot and send a party of yard-men to search the track for the lad. A switch engine was accordingly despatched, which proceeded as far as Like Station, wheretho youth was found wandering al oit the platform in a state of bewildirm.nt, rubbing his eyes and feeling his shoulder and head, which had sustain d slight scratches and bruises. Beyond these, not the slightest injury could be discovered. The lad could give no account of his singular action. He only new that he had fallen asleep in the car with his brothers aud sister, and was awakened by the shock of striking the earth upon his shoulders. The violence of the concussion caused him to roll over and over down the slight embankment of the road-bed, and bv the time he could collect his scattered Senses and regain his feet, tlie train was out of sight. Not knowing which way to proceed, ho wandered aloug tho track at random, and soon reached the platform at Lake Station, where ho concluded to remain until daybreak, when the rescuing party came up. The joy of the mother on rinding her boy safe nnd sound can better be imagined than described. He had passed through a terrible ordeal in a sounainbulistic state, and escaped without a sprain or fracture, and nu diseomf Tj beyond thut occasioned by a few scratches and bruises. Mrs, Dixon was en route from Montreal to Manitoba, in the British possessions, where her husband is at present engaged an a contractor.