Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-21
APPALLING RIDE.

| Caught on the Cow Catcher of a LOcOmH-
| tive Head Downward-FOrfy Miles an
Hour Over Draw -Bridge-A Most Mira
culOus Escape.
From the Poughk epsie Eaglel
| Itwas published exclusively in the Eagle
of Friday, that between ten and eleven
O'Clock the night previous, JAMES Carter,
of Hughsonville was struck by the second
Pacific xpre>s and carried on the pilot OF
engine to New Hamburg station, with no
| bones broken. To us the affair seemed a
remarkable one, and accordingly sought
details, and, visiting the place, obtained
them as follows: #-
AT twenty minutes pas ten on the night
in question, Carter was walking up the
| Hudson River Railroad on the down track,
nearly 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 to
| walk to HughsonvilIe, where he was to
work in Mr.. Falkner's brick yard. While
| plOddng along he suddenly observed
| train coming south on the track on which
be was walking. 1t was an extra freight
train aud moving lively. IIe stepped hur-
riedly aside to gztou Of the way, and got
on the up track, not dreaming of the dan
! ger which awaited. him there. AS the
fic express came along on the up track.
The noise of the extra prevented Carter
from hearing the approach OF The express.
The engineer of the latter, however, saw
him, anl 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 tha MI n n ohno1 Of tho To-
connective. 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 crawed through the win
dow of his cab and ran along the railing 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. n
thrill of horror ran through him as lie OBJ
served the body of the man half bent lying
across the iron bars of the cow W-catcher,
head downward and the feet up, hanging
across the heavy beam to 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 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 flag staff, seiz-
ed the man and held on with a death
grip until the train came TO stop ut 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 buildings and
the train went on. Carter was entirely un-
conscious, and as limp as a rag. DIR.
Downing, who resides some distance from
the depnt, was sent for with all dispatch,
and in the interim thorough examina-
ton was made of Carter's body. Strange
to relate, not bone was broken, nor was
there even an abrasion of the skin notice
able. Atlast accounts he was doing well.