A CHILD'S ESCAPE.
A little five-year-old boy had a strange experience, and a marvellous escape from seriou's accident in Sydney last week (writes "Cristina" in tho "Australasian"). He was playing in a roadway at Pyramont, when a man ,on a bicycle knocked hid down. Bofore tho child could pick himself up, a tram passed over him. The driver had seen the child, and applied tho emergency brakes as soon as possible, bringing. the tram to a sudden stop. Then everyono looked for the boy. But ho was nowhere to be seen. Tho conductor and the 'driver and various pedestrians then tried to raise the car from the rails with jacks; but still thcro was no sign of the child beneath it. After about five minutes, a far-away voice was heard, calling, "Let me out, let me out." It proceeded from the middle of the car. Lifting tho detachable board from the floor of the car, there the conductor saw the boy. Ho had been caught by the mechanism attached to the lower part of the car, dragged a few yards, aud hoisted into a groove. Fortunately the wheels had escaped him, so his injuries wero only superficial. He was taken - by ambulance.to tho hospital, and was soon well enough to be taken home.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 3
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