AN AMAZING STORY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 778, 27 July 1907, Page 3

AN AMAZING STORY.

An rse;i.po probably witliout parallel in the annals of railway travelling was reported irom Buckingham yesterday, says the London Daily Chronicle of June oth. The accident happened to a boy oi' tive, named Shepherd, who was accompanying his father by train mi a visit to a relative. Tlie child v.-as looking out of the carriage window when the door flew open, and lie fell out. The train was Travelling at high speed, hut in answer to the frantic jerking of the communication-cord by tlie father, it was pulled up. Then, to the amazement of the passengers, the child was seen on his feet, toddling on the v p-l inc. metals after the train, and, so far as anyone could observe at the moment, little hurt. The next instant the delight of the father, who md sprung to tlie ground, was changed to dismay, for the up expres was seen dashing behind the child. Before a linger" could be raised it had knocked the boy down and passed over him. Mr Shepherd and hi.s fellow-passengers were overcome by this second catastrophe. But the boy, his head now bleeding freely, • picked himself up as his father rushed towards his body, and ran once more to meet Mr Shepherd. This time he was lifted safely into the carriage. When the train reached Maidenhead he was attended by a medical man, and then taken on to Buckingham. The child's wounds on the face and head were extensile, but when seen a few hours later he was playing happily out in the open air, with his head bandaged. j— g«-a-ni--a-—n-e-B-m-—