The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-07
UNDER A MOVING CAR.
Sensations OF a Man Who Thought
His Last Hour Had Come.
Fro,n fbo Cb,caoo Tribune

His Last Hour Had Come.
From the Chicago Tribune.
To fall under running railroad train, &c
lie on the rail and see death In the shape OF
big wheels approaching one at the rate OF
fifteen miles or so an hour and only few
feet distant, lie an experience not given to
many to be able to relate. To drop off a
slippery step and tumble onto the rail be-
tween the wheels Of a sleeping car, and yet
escape with only the loss of the flesh Of ones
heel, il feat not often successfully accom-,
plished. Yet this was what happened to q
Chicago man recently.
"How did it happenl What were you
thinking about" he was asked the other
day.
"Well he replied, 81 had no time to find
out how it happened, but l do remember a
good many things that / thought of while il
was happening. Now it seems utterly i'm
possible TO me that such flood Of thoughts
| could flash through my brain and leave
| their individual and distinct impression as
did In the almost immeasurably short space
of time that l lay on the rail in front of
those wheels. 1t is said that Just at the
| moment of ones death the whole doings of q
lifetime are held up for review in less time
than it takes to wink ones eye can readily
believe 1t. In less than a second thought
of the many railroad accidents of which |
had.read. Itfiashed through my mind that !
had often seen men credited with wilful
neglect or reckless intention in allowing
themselves to be killed or MANNED, and there
was on the track ready to furnish another
illustration. Yes, sir; there lay, fiat on
my back on the rail, and saw the wheels of
the after truck of the car come rolling
along, aud only a few feet away. 1t al
most seemed as if felt them crushing and
grinding my bones, yet l had, it seems, time
to think also Of how easily a fellow gets
killed.
II thought how foolish it was to accuse
Others OF foolhardlness in getting run over
while | myself was about TO become a horri-
BILE example. | thought of how often had
let up lightly engineers and conductors
| and helped to take the blame from them and
put In on the fellow who got killed. But
my greatest regret in the time had ia
think, was that had so often adversely
criticised the man who got run over.
Strange as it may seem, however. these
we're not half my thoughts. / realized that
| was yet alive, in the best of good health,
every bone and limb sound so to speak,
and the next instant, would, l felt, be
ground into pieces and my flesh and bones
| spattered over tho railroad track There
was no power in the world to help me, so II
seemed; not all that the engineers or con-
ductors or brakemen could do would be OF
any avail. Then it flashed through ray
mind thatI was on the brink OF the Other
world and had rot even a chance to make
one repentant prayer. l wondered what Il
would mean for me.
While these ideas were flying through
my mind must have made some sort of an
effort to escape. have no knowledge oil
how did it nor the least notion Of how
accomplished it, but did roll off the raj
outward. The wheel caught my heel
though at first it seemed as If my foot wal
cut off above the ankle and was powerlesl
to move 1t. / managed to get on to my
second. to get my thoughts together as tC
what should next dc. IL has taken me ter
or fifteen minutes to tell this thing, but Il
did not, should judge. from the rate thu
train was going, take anything like seconC
OF time for 1t all to happen"