OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

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 sixty-three) on approaching Big 1 ide Creek discovered a man makmg his way over the trestle work. Findiug that he would not have time to get across ahead of the swiftly-ap-proaching 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 over him. To the horror of tbe engineer, however, the man caught by the waist and hung there between the rails, with his head and shoulders sticking up, an object of certain distraction if the train should strike him. Engineer Jenkins sprang off his seat, jammed down the air-biakes as lightly as they could Le 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 ho hung thero awaiting for almost sudden death, and his feelings can perhaps never be described. He must have died mentally a dozen times,