Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
g" Miraculous Escape '-Thee Cases Far
Out of the Common Order.


One of the most amazing instances O
escape from sudden and apparently in
evitable death occurred a few nights
ago on the Hudson River railroad. A
man named James Carter, of Hughson,
vile, was walking up the road about a
mile south of the New Hamburg Station
On his back he carried 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 a moment; in the next
Carter had leaped for safety upon the
| other track. But it was stumbling from
Scylla upon Charybdis. The startled
man could not hear for the roar of the
freight train, q 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 off steam and whistled down
brakes" But it was too late. The speed
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 a 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.
We believe lady is alive who has
gone through something of this kind.
This was at Cold Spring Station, some
years ago. She was crossing the track
IN wagon, and was in like manner
struck by locomotive. The horse was
instantly killed, and the wagon smash
ed to atoms. But the lady, strange to
say, after being thrown into the air, was
caught by the flagstaff through her
Notwithstanding as one plays
the game of "graces land carried on
unhurt. She was rescued as soon as the
train could be stopped, and sustained
no injury.
When the ship Dunbar was wrecked
some years ago off Sydney Heads, she
foundered near sheer precipice, almost
absolutely smooth on its surface, and
rising 800 feet from the sea. On that
smooth wall, far above the reach of any
common waves, is a single tiny crevice,
or shelf, few feet in length. 1t was a
thousand to one when the Dunbar went
down that no one on board would be
saved. But the very fury of the tenn
pest that destroyed his ship was one
poor mariners salvation. He was
tossed up into this crevice by a mon
strous wave as neatly as billiard ball
is shot into pocket. There he Law in
sensible, but he was found in time to
save him, and was hoisted to the top OF
the precipice above. The chance OF
his going into the crevice when the
Dunbar broke up was rather less than
that of throwing a pea into nail-hole
IN wall twenty feet off.