The morning news., 1893-12-03

ward came up behind him and knocked
him down. When Tom fell one leg was
thrown across the south rail, while the
rest Of his body rested between the rails
"m that position he was pushed by the
moving engine distance of about 200 feet
before he was seen by a brakeman of a
coal train coming south. The brakeman
yelled to the engineer that they had run
over man and the engine was quickly
stopped. Kelley then got out from under
the engine and walked home. His only in
jGries were bruises about the arms and
hands lie was only in the house a few
days Tom told me that the first punch he
got knocked the breath out of him, so that
he couldn't yell to the engineer, but he
kept his senses and Clung to one of the
axles like a drowning man TO plank. He
said that the snow and ice on the track
alone saved his life, as had his clothing
caught but for a moment he would have
been cut in two
u have only run against one lucky man
in nay time, spoke up gray-haired and
whiskered engineer but the incident is
worth talking about. The man ] refer to
told me his story shortly after the Incl
dent. 1t seemed that the poor fellow got
out of work, and no money coming in his
wife deserted him. Then he became
seriously ill for many weeks and when he
was able to walk about life had very little
CHdEll lOE MN. / HSIl lt uGCtNlGu " NDul-
NIT suicide in a novel manner, and as luck
would have it, if his plan worked, was
to do the killing.
The awful novelty of the method he
selected for ending his life was suf-
tCIent indication of the frenzy to which
broOdiug over his troubles had driven
him. | was working on the western di-
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio then,
and at the time mentioned was clearing
TNipeinpoti at O1.fN o nh Crai
The would-be suicide went out on the
Freeman avenue bridge in that city,
where it crosses the Baltimore and Ohio
tracks. After waiting some time my
train swung into sight and he quickly
mounted the bridge railing. | saw the
fellow, but there are so many curious
antics going on about railroad that he
but slightly interested me- and l let my
train speed ahead. just as we were
dashing under the bridge the poor fellow
threw himself headlOng to the tracks be-
low. AS / saw him take the plunge my
breath fOrsook me, as you know, boys, it
takes tough man to kill a human being
without quiver of remorse.
He intended to throw himself in front
of the engine, but waited just an instant
too long. Instead of meeting the horrible
fate he had planned for himself his body
struck the COncave side of the engine
at the side of the track. Some bystand-
ers who had seen the man make the ter
rible leap rushed TO the spot, expecting
of course. to find him crushed and bleed
inglmass. They found instead that though
he was badly bruised and his nose and
face lacerated, he had few bones broken,
and in few minutes was fully recovered.
He came 10 see me afterward at the
station in Cincinnati. and after telling
me his troubles, said his experience with
my engine had completely cured him of
suicidal intentions, and that he was going
to brace up and be man That was a
lucky jump for him, for, besides not kill
ing him, as it should have done, ii knocked
some sense into his foolish head
WALKED OFF IN his SLEEP.
THAT escape was almost as lucky as
Jim Walters. " cbimed in another mem
Der of the club. t'At the time / speak Of
jim was firing on a through passenger
run and on account of the heavy tra1ic
had been working about twenty hours
straight. OF course he could steal little
maps of and on throughout the run be-
tween this city and Philadelphia, but the
engines are big, the work hard and he fin
ally worked himself into half-conscious
condition. He was coming south Oh a run
that reaches Washington near midnight
and about an hour earlier than that
pulled out of Union station, Baltimore.
You all know what it is to get through