Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-22
THRILLING AND MIRACULOUS.
A Woman's Narrow Escape from q Ter
rfble Death on a Trestlework.

A Woman's Narrow Escape from q Ter
rfble Death on a Trestlework.
Mrs. Louise Alger, Mrs. Susie Sloane
and the latter's ten-year-old boy had a
thrilling experience about noon on Tues
day.
They attempted to cross the trestlework
of hat is known as the Alice street
bridge on the Alameda broad gauge rail-
road, and when they had traversed half
the distance they were overtaken by a
train and narrowly escaped death.
The women live at 365 Fourth street,
Oakland, and had been on the south side
of the estuary to gather green stuffs. They
were accompanied by large Newfound-
land dog, and were carrying with them a
sack containing the vegetables they had
gathered. Soon after the train had round
ed the curve and rushed on to the bridge
the engineer evidently saw them, for he
blew his whistle and at once applied the
air brakes.
The women, realizing their peril, at once
seized the wooden Orders at the side of
the track and swung themselves outward
to avoid being struck by the train. Be-
tween the rails and the side of the bridge
there is q space of perhaps two and a half
feet, and the track, being a single one,
AOA "do LIZ OS1Ck uOpc vi CSCApt 4OE tuS1u
than by the means they adopted.
Mrs. Sloane grasped her boy frantically
and held him with her right hand while
her left arm encircled the upright. As the
engine came steaming toward them the
dog, which is owned by Mrs. Alger, jumped
into the middle of the track and faced it,
barking necessarily az he did so. Seeing
the peril in which the animal was placed
his owner leaned forward and grasped him
just as the engine was about to dash him
to death upon the ties. Mrs. Alger is a
powerful wonlan and with a sudden jerk
she pulled the faithful dog from the track
and sent him flying down into the water
beneath.
But this effort almost cost her life. Be
fore she could recover herself the engine
struck her and literally tore her clothing
to shreds. The long cloth coat she were
was torn from her back, her dress was
ripped in a hundred places, as though it
had been drawn through a thrashing ma
chine, and her left boot was torn from her
foot. The engine struck her on the left
hip and arm, and how it happened that she
was not hurled from the bridge by the
force of the shock is little less than a
miracle.
The train vas brought to a %standstill at
about bali It's length beyond the scene of
the accident, and the trainmen and a num-
Der Of the passengers went back to render
assistance. The injured woman was con-
veyed to the Oakland Receiving hospital
by Conductor Alexander Buchanan, and
the train was taken on to the mole by
George Teeple, the regular conductor of
the train.
At the hospital it was discovered that
no bones were broken, but the unfortunate
woman had received severe bruises and
Commissions on the left side of her body.
She was overjoyed when told that a boat
man had rescued her dog.
II don't care about myself" she said, as
she hobbled out of the hospital, but if
that dog Of mine had been killed I'd never
have held my head up again. have had
him a good many years and he has saved
my life two or three times. used to live
out on the Mohave desert and did cooking
for the railroad company. 1t was then
that the dog did good service for me-. ~
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