The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-26
ssMlraculous Escape1l Three Cases Far
Out Of the Common Order.

ssllrAculous Escaposl Ihreo Cases Far
Out Of the Common Order.
One Of the most Amazing instances Of
escape from sudden and apparently In
evitable death occurred . few nights
ago on the Hudson River railroad. A
man named James Carter, Of Huphson.
Vile, was walking up the road about a
mile south of the New Hamburg Station.
On his back he carried q trunk. Sud.
denly train hove in sight, laundering
down. the track on which Carter was
walking. To see the red glare and to
hear the crushing advance of the engine
WAS the work of . moment; in the next
Carter had lesped for ssfsiy upon the
other track. But it was stumbling from
Scylla upon Charybdis. The startled
man could not hear for the roar of the
fl eight train, new enemy that was
close upon him. As he jumped upon
the up track, the Pacific express came
hurting along at his back, running forty
miles an hour. The engineer saw Car.
ter, shut of steam and whistled down
brakes" But it was too late. Thespeed
of the locomotive was hardly slackened
when it struck the poor fellow, and he
and his trunk were flung twenty feet
into the air Probably it was thousand
TO one at the time Of collision that Car.
ter would never draw another breath.
Yet he is alive and we'll to-day. The
case proved to be one Of those astonish.
ing exceptions to ordinary experience
that we instinctively call miraculous.
Carter's clothes caught in what is called
the draw bar" his person not striking
any part of the locomotive at all. Thus,
when discovered, he was lying across
the iron bars of the "cow- catcher
with his head down and his feet up
the head being within two or three
inches of the rails. The train dashed
furiously on, Carter continuing to hang
in his perilous position until it reached
New Hamburg. He was insensible, but
soon revived with simple remedies, and
was found to be absolutely unhurt
There was not even scratch or abra
sion of the skin. nn. 3
We believe lady is alive who ha:
gone through something of this kind
This was at Cold Spring Station, some
years ago. She was crossing the track
in q wagon, and was in like manner
struck BY locomotive. The horse wa!
instantly killed, and the wagon smash
ed to atoms. But the lady, strange Il
say, after being thrown into the air, wa
caught by the flagstaff through hel
Notwithstanding as one play
the game Of graces land carried OF
unhurt. She was rescued as soon as th'
train could be stopped, and sustained
no injury. ~
When the ship Dunbar was wrecket
some years ago Of Sydney Heads, sh
] foundered near sheer precipice, almos
absolutely smooth on Its surface, AND
! rising 800 feet from the sea. On tina
smooth wall, far above the reach of an!
common waves, is . single tiny crevice
or shelf, few feet in length. 1t was {
thousand to one when the Dunbar wen
down that no one on board would b
saved. But the very fury of the tenn
pest that destroyed his ship was ON
poor mariners salvation. He wa
tossed up into this crevice BY a mon
strous wave - neatly as . billiard bal
is shot into a pocket. There he lay ia
sensible, but he was found in time 4
save him, and was hoisted to the top q
the precipice above. The chance %
his going into the crevice when tn
Dunbar broke up was rather less thai
that Of, throwing pea into nail-hol
in wall twenty feet of. M .ruF