WHAT A BRAVE MAN DID.
A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
By Telegraph,—Press Association. — Copyright. Brisbane, May 23.
A railway employee named Ewing was shunting a heavily-ladon mixed train at Alpha station to allow .a special.to pass, when a large brown snake crawled out of the points box, over his hands and shoulder, and down his back, and osaapsd. Ewing pluckily held on to tho lover, and allowed tho train to cross safely. "When questioned afterwards, ho said that if ho had lot the lever go the train would have been wrecked, and probably many lives lost. It was simply a oase of many lives or one. Besides, his own safety depended. on his keeping cool and (|uiet.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2519, 24 May 1895, Page 2
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