BOY'S AMAZING ESCAPE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 176, 27 July 1907, Page 2

BOY'S AMAZING ESCAPE.

FALLS FROM AN EXPRESS AND

RUN OVER BY ANOTHER

An escape probably without parallel in the annals of railway travelling was reported from Buckingham (England) recently. The accident happened to a little boy of five, named Shepherd, who was accompanying his father by train on a visit to a relative. The child was looking out of the carriage window when the door flew open, and he fell out. The train was travelling at a high speed, but in answer to the frantic jerking of the communication-cord by the father, it was pulled up. Then, to the amazement of the passengers, the child was seen on his feet, toddling on the up-line metals after the train, and, so far as anyone could observe at the moment, little hurt. The next-in-stant the delight of the father, who had sprung to the ground, was changed to dismay, for the up express was seen dashing behind the child. Before a finger could be raised it had knocked the boy down and passed over him. Mr Shepherd and his fellow-passen-gers were overcome by this second catastrophe. But the boy, his head now bleeding freely, picked himself up as hs 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 Dr Arthur Edge and then brought on to Buckingham. The child's wounds on the head and face were extensive, but in a few days he was playing happily out in the open air, with his head bandaged. Mr Shepherd, who belongs to the Soldiers' Institute at Frimley, says the incident is too terrible to think or speak of. The boy is his only son.