Connecticut western news., 1893-09-21
MORE NARROW ESCAPES
At Union Depot.

There have been many narrow escapes from death or serious injury at the union depot in this village, and the list was increased last Thursday night when two of our prominent townsmen took ia leap in the dark" from moving train. This Is how it occurred: Mrs George s. Dun- ming and Miss Emma Lawrence started for Chicago and the Worlds Fair, via. the Philadelphia, Reading New Eng land route. Messrs Geo. $. Dunning and Edmund D. Lawrence escorted the ladies to the station ill this village. The express train is due about midnight but on this occasion was half an hour or more late. When the train arrived, Mir Cunning accompanied the ladies into the car and carried their baggage. He told MT Lawrence not to enter the GIT ! but to remain on the station plat form. Soon as MT Dunning entered the car, Mir Lawrence enquired of bystand CT how long the train halted at the sta tion? The bystander replied five min-
 
 car but just as he reached centre of it the train started. Messrs Cunning and Lawrence rushed to the rear end of the car, but they found the door locked. Then they made another break for iber- ty in different direction, and succeed ed in reaching the front platform of the car. In the meantime the train had at- tained considerable speed and had pass ed beyond the station platform and across the Housatonic track to & point below the switch. The night was very dark and the two unwilling passengers were so anxious to escape that in their excitement they did not take into con- sideration the fact that the train had passed beyond the station platform. They leaped in the dark, expecting of course to alight on the platform which is on level with the car steps, but how they landed no one knows. When MT Dunning picked himself up be found his clothes torn, one hand injured some- what, and he was bruised in several pla- ces. Then and there he said to himself "What dunce was to leap in the dark. Edmund, with his level head, has stuck to the train and will notify the conductor to let him off" Mir Cunning very naturally supposed that Mir Law renee had stuck to the train. inasmuch as MT Lawrence had carried lighted lantern, and neither he nor the lantern | appeared, and the train had passed out of sight around the curve. Then Mir Dunning turned his steps toward the station, but he immediately stumbled over some obstacle in his pathway. The obstacle proved to be the unconscious form of MT Lawrence, who lay on the | ground with his head on the end of a tie and his body almost parallel with the rail. MT Lawrence may congratu- late himself that he was unconscious at that moment, for two cars passed by him as he lay in that position and con- dition. Had he been conscious and made an effort to escape, as a person naturally would, in all probability he would have rolled under the train or at least thrown an arm or leg under the wheels.
 MT Dunning finally succeeded in arousing MT Lawrence to a semi-con- scious condition, and got him back to | the station where he left him in charge of an engineer while he (Mr Dunning) went after Dr Church who promptly answered the summons. By this time MT Lawrence had revived sufficiently to walk. but his head and clothing were saturated with blood from wound on once to Dr Church's house where Mir Lawrence's clothing could be removed and the full extent of his injuries ascer- tained, and his wounds dressed. With the assistance of MT Dunuing and the | doctor, MT Lawrence walked to the doc- tors house. There 1t was found that Mir Lawrence had sustained deep cut and scalp wound on the back and side of his head, and several minor injuries besides being thoroughly shaken up. About three hours later, MT Lawrence was re- moved to his home, and remained in bed about "A hours to see whether any further injuries would develop. but none appeared and he was sitting up and around the house on Saturday or Sunday.
 There is usually humorous side to every event. In this case it cropped out on the arrival of the trio at Mir Law rence's house, whereupon Mrs Lawrence told George and Edmund that from their appearance she should judge they came via Eitzperald's