RAILWAY MAN-CATCHERS.
Cow-catchers on trains are well known in America. In Russia exfor human 'beings. ■ ' By means of an apparatiia placed-in fr<jnt of tUo locomotive; imy persqn getting yj the way of the train v caught, and not thrown violently on one teide as by 'the cowcatcher, but gently deposited in a kind of cradle. The experiments ate being conducted on thY Vitebsk line, and,
according to the Warsaw Gazette, they have proved so far very successful. A pony, whose legs were bound, was placed in the way of the train, and caught up in the way described. The animal, it is said, sustained no injury.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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106RAILWAY MAN-CATCHERS. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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