OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1620, 13 August 1887, Page 3

OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.

The New Orleans express leaving here (Savannah) recently was running along at the rate of forty miles an hour between Cairo and Whigham, when the engineer (Jenkins, locomotive 63) on approaching Bi«; Tide Creek discovered a m»n making his way over the trestle work. Finding tkat he could not hsve time to get across ahead of the «wiftly approaching train, the man, a large, stout individual, endeavoured to drop between the ties, so as to hold on by his hands while the train should pass orer him. To the horror of the engineer, however, the man caught by the waist, and hung there between the rai's, with his head and ehoulders just sticking up, an object °f • certain destruction if the train should strike him. Engineer Jenkins sprang off Iris seat, jammed the air-brakes down as tightly as they could be put on, and reversed his huge engine, one of the largest on the road, and "pulled her open." The man's cries were described as fearful as he hung there awaitiDg almost certain death, and his feelings can, perhaps, never bej described. He must have died mentally a dozen times, but almost miraculously the No. 6S came to a stop, hissing anal trembling, when the ponderous cowcatcher was within three f«et of the unfortunate man. He was rescued from his perilous position, and went his way rejoicing at his -Imost miraculous escape. But for engineer Jeu kins' pronaP l »nd efficient efforts and his care and watchfulness, the roan, whose name is unknown, would have died a most horrible death. As it is, he will hardly care to venture upon such an experiment as crossing a trestle ahead of an express train again soon.