The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-04


less than three minutes after, The train
had come TO full stop. and We, with
others, were running up the track TO
pick him up from a cattle guard
INTO WHICH HE HAD FALLFE.
Just how lbe accident occurred, We
will probably never exactly know. for
though breathing an6 struggling vile
picked up, be was really unconscious
of what had occurred, and after COM
ing to Sufficiently, to speak, inquired
''where he was," ''how he had got
hurt, " what he had come tn, re for. /"
&c, and saying he was very badly
hurt. But a gentleman who was stand
ing in field 'scme distance off, and
who was watching the train, saw the
doctor on The rear platform, and
thought that lie had jumped off. We
can hardly think so. He knew the
train would check up enough TO let
him off safely. Our idea is that he
stood Oh The platform with his hands
cn the railing facing the car. and after
the whistle sounded, placed his foot
upon the coupling, and perhaps rested
his weight upon it. That a sudden
jolt made his foot slip from the coup
ling, and not having sufficient hold
upon the railing be fell off into the
guard. We cannot think be purpose
ly jumped off, as the train was run.
ming at a speed OF twenty miles an
hour and had scarcely began to SLACK
en It's speed when the accident occur
rad. Ia his fail his limbs were evi-
dently thrown against the timber so
forcibly as to break one of his thighs
and his body struck the earth SO forci-
bly, as to injure lis abdomen and force
the blood from his nose There were
all The injuries we could discover when
we had placed him on couch extern
poirsed from the car seats, and he had
recovered sufficiently TO at least par
italy realize his situation At Bluff
ton le WIS carried out, placed in the
depot, and medical aid sent for. We
trust that, at this writing, lie may
be past serious danger, though at the
time we could not repress the thought
dangerous internal injuries might have
place in jeopardy a most valuable life,
OF course the accident, and the
manner of ii. was the theme of CONVEX
sation for The balance of the trip to
Lima. AT Lima we left the ears. and
prepared for three Eours waiting for |
the train for Pittsburg. During the |
interval, several showers past over. one |
of them accompanied with thunder,
and hail. The rain tell copi-
ously, end the hail, beginning in small
pellets, Ike homeopathic pills, increas
ed in size rapidly until they resembled |
largest Iallopathic doses. In fact, you
could have gathered all sizes, from |
that of a small marble &c that of a
FAIR sIZFD HENS EGG,
though the latter were not very nu- I!
merous. At 4:05 we steamed east
ward, passing through pretty coUn
try, but seeing but little wheat, and |
that not of. the best, until between
Ada and DCukirk, when the rumber
of fields seemed TO Increase aid tie !
promise of abundant harvest, became |
more cheering. Town after town fell
into the rear of the car of progress,
shower after shower greeted Us and
was passed, nights mantle was unroll
ed, Lima rose up in gorgeous beauty.
clouds fled before her gentle presence,
and soon all nature was bathing in a
flood of radiance. 1t was a beautiful
night, the car was still with only the
monotonous ''clack, clack'' OF the
wheels, break the stiffness, and we
yielded to morphetic influences and
dropped into the land Of Nod. How
long we slept We knew not, but all at
once we heard voices, murmuripg like
and then more roundly, and soon We
distinguished ''on stiits," women's
clothes-''never saw anything like it. "
Our head turned toward the speaker,
when we were accosted with:
did you see that tall lady; thought
when / saw her twas man on stilts
dressed in womaI.'s clothes. Had 20
stop 10 get through the door There's
a pair of them. Man gone into sleep
ing car; will be back soon. Don't
,elieve lie can get berths long enough.
Had to stoop going through the car.
Woman's the talest, too, Think of
that. Tnere she sits near the door,
We looked. \ lady of goocd hight
sat near the door. but IN front cf her
close against tie Car side, rose a coIlos
sal figure, winch forcibly called to
mind tie description of SAUL lsraors
first king From the shoulders and |
upward .he vas higher than any Of the |
people We Lad scarcely made the
observation when the rear door open
ed, aud We perceived