Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-24
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Caught on the Ow-Catcher sCn Locomo-
tive Head Downward-Forty NiIes an
flour over nraw-Brfdge-A W0st Mira.
cuIOus Escape.
From the Poughkeepse EaFlel
twas published exclusively in the Edqle
of Friday, that between ten and eleven
O'Clock the night previous, James Carter,
of Hughsonvile. was struck by the second
Pacific express and carried ON the pilot of
engine to New Hamburg station, with no
bones broken To US the affair seemed n
remarkable one and accordingly sought
details, and, visiting the place, obtained
them as follows:
At twenty minutes pas ten on the night
in question, Garter was walking up the
Hudson River Railroad on the down track,
nearly a mile south of the New Hamburg
station. Upon his back he carried an emp
ty trunk. His destination was New Ham
burg, from which place he intended 10
walk TO HughsOnvile where he was to
work in Mr.. Falkner's brick ard. While
prodding along he suddenly observed a
train coming south on the track on which
he was walking. 1t was an extra freight
train and moving lively. He stepped hur-
riedly aside 20 get out of the way, and got
on the up track, not dreaming of the dam
ger which awaited him there. As the
extra train was passing, the second Paci-
tic express came along on the up track.
The noise of the extra prevented Carter
The engineer of the latter, however, saw
him, and shutting off steam whistled
down brakes. The express was five or ten
minutes behind time, and was running
like lightning. With speed scarcely slack
ened, the engine struck the man and
trunk, and hurled both all OF twenty feet
in the air, and Just little ahead of the To-
comotive When they came down the
trunk alighted upon the front platform of
the locomotive under the headlight, and
the man on the pilot The fireman on the
engine hurriedly crawled through the WIN
dow of his cab and ran along the raj ling TO
the front of the locomotive, where, scram-
bling over the trunk and with one hand
on the flag staff, he peered down through
the darkness to the pilot below. The train
was stilling rushing along the rails. \
thrill of horror ran through him as he OBJ
served the body of the man half bent lying
across the iron bars of the ow-catcher,
head downward and the feet up, hanging
across the heavy beam 20 which the pilot
is attached. The clothing of the man had
caught in the draw-bar, and the body was
held as firmly as If in a wise. The head
was within two or three inches Of the rails,
and as the engine ratified the iron the body
jolted and swayed fearfully. The brave
fireman, leaning over as far as he could,
and still holding fast to the flagstaff, seiz-
ed the man and held Oh with q death
grip until the train came to a stop at New
Hamburg station. Daniel Carroll, the
night watchmau, was at his post of duty,
and running TO the assistance of the engi-
neer and fireman the man was with much
difficulty removed from his perilous posi-
ton and taken into the depot building and
the train went on. Garter was entirely un-
conscious, and as limp as a rag. DR..
Downing, who resides some distance from
the depot, was sent for with all dispatch
Int
ton was made of Carriers body. Strange
to relate, not a bone was broken nor was
there even an abrasion of the skin notice
able, Atlast accounts he was doing well.