Extraordinary Nerve of a Railway Brakesman.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 5

Extraordinary Nerve of a Railway Brakesman.

The amount of nerve and endurance a person can show in a moment ot intenso Miftering varies considerably, according to the individual temperament, and people who flinch from or faint under great pain are otteu really as brave as others who undergo an ordeal of the kind stoically. A remavlcablo instance of stoicism is reported by the American papers. Recently a brakesman was missed from a luggage tiain running on the Susquehanna division of the New York and Western Railway. It was conjectured that he had fallen from the train, and a couple of men, with a locomotive, were sent to look for him. After the search had been continued for a while they perceived the missing employe coming along towards them in a mutilated state that would have left few men the power to walk. His clothing was nearly torn from his body : he waa dripping with blood, and his right arm had been cut off from the shoulder when he fell from the train. Besides these injuries, he had the collar-bone broken in two places, four ribs fractured, and terriblo cuts about his head. He related that, as soon as ho could recover himself after the train had passed over his arm, he regained his feet, and found his severed limb, which he canied in his remaining hand. Ho had walked in his terrible condition upwards of a mile when he met tho locomotive. The poor fellow's injuries resulted in death forty-oight hours after he had told his story.