The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-06-23
PINNED IN A WRECK.
4 Western Engineers Nerve In tho
Moments OF His Great Agony.


A Western railroad man who was Wis
itins Washington recently told Wash
irgton Star reporter the following story:
Il was riding on the Seattle. North
Shore and Western Railroad, four years
ago. when the engine went through q
trestle into shallow stream. The en-
gineer, Jim Boyle. was under the loco
motive. and two other train hands were
holding. his head up out of the water
when / reached the spot. From Just
above the knees his body was uninjured,
but the lower parts Of his legs were
crushed tiat and held in a vice which
knew no loosening. Several miles above
some Chinese miners were working, and
they damned up the water every night
before quitting, letting 1t loose again
when they began &C. wash dirt next day.
depth to prevent doctor. even IL he
had been present, from amputating his
legs. and there was the added danger
that at any time the Chinese might set
the water loose and thus drown the In
jured man. Boyle lay there In what
must have been agony certainly. and
with the water, barely below his mouth.
and Icy cold al that, and never whim-
pered. He inquired calmly II Golfer
dam couldn't be built around him, and
when this was found to be impossible he
few stations back-to come up on the
wrecking train. Then he asked for a
smoke and pulled away at pipe as
contentedly, TO all appearances, as II he
had been in his engine cab. The train
men relieved each other, and the passen-
gers also took turns in holding up Boyle's
head above the water and as the hours
the awful strain but Boyle. Shortly be-
fore noon welcome toot was heard to
the south of us, and Boyle heard It;
aboard that train was all he said.
" 1t was the wreckingt tram. and the
first person or II was a white-faced lit
tie woman with tightly compressed lips.
straight to the cut and down into Its
awful bottom with unhesitating steps.
and kissed him.
My legs are gone, sure. Clara said
the man with n smile.
"Well. your hearts all right" she re-
sponded cheerfully. There was no hope
lessness In her appearance, no matter
Some one came rushing down with the
gun washing!' Neither the man nor
woman showed bit of fear.
Let me have the gun. DEAR he
:" You'd die with sin on your SOUL
to square myself.
nr %Th rat W W G9 ,ggentlemen had come
preference to letting him die most hor-
rlble death In fioad of dirt and sand
ana GraNel. An Englishman. who had
been passenger on the train, appeared
at this juncture with an implement
shaped something like a mattock. No
one knew where he got II. Maybe we
can scrape the bottom away under
Boyle's legs and drag him out, or what's
left or him, anyhow he suggested. ~
" He went 10 work Every now and
then he would strike the crushed legs OF
the engineer and calculate: beg par
dom and Eyyie would Invariably reply:
NO harm done. General. In ten min
utes he asked Boyle to brace himself
and motioned to the men a . his side.
Boy!e's arms and shoulders were quick
iy grasped by muscular tralnmen; there
was strong jerk and Boyle was re-
leased. Even In, that supreme moment
OF agony. when he was laid on the side
of the cut. with masses of bleeding.
crushed, quiyer!ng flesh and bone where
his feet and skin and knees had been.
he looked up to the Englishman and
said: General, thanks: you are a cork
err and then tainted In his wife's arms.
Ten minutes later the cut was ten feet
deep. with a .bubbling,. kissing, rapid
stream OF yellow water"