A THRILLING ADVENTURE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 56, 3 September 1904, Page 13

A THRILLING ADVENTURE.

It is difficult to imagine a- wore terrifying position than for a man to have his foot wedged in a railway live and to be compelled to watch a train approach him. Yet this has been tho experience at Landoro Viaduct, near Swansea, of a man named Jeffreys, a carriage examiner employed by tho Great Western Railway. Jeffreys was walking along the railway track towards his home, about ten o'clock at night, when his boot heel became wedged in ono of tbe wooden check rails. Ho knew that a train was due to pass, and did his, utmost^to free biauself, but without success. Just thon he saw tho lights of the incoming train speeding towards him. Ho shouted, thinking bh«t cither the enginedriver or the signalman in tho box some distance off would hear him, but there was not the slightest sign of their having dtme so. In a few seconds the train was on him. Joffr«s»S then threw his body backward as few as possible, in oixtar to sivvo himself ftton being struck by the engine. Tha locomotive passed without touching him, but one of the oarriagce struck him on Uh> leg, rendering him unconscious. By Hhis time th& engine-driver had observed his piedicn-meefc/ftml pulled up his tram and; effected Jeffreys^ release, when it w«s found newesivry to amputate 4be crusb«f j IJi»K