Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-08

their combiEed weight toward the front of an automobile that backed with them through the stout iron rail guard ing the high drive. In that instant it seemed nothing could hold them back from n-ightful plunge to the street far below. The rear wheels o( the big machine were over the edge of the big bridge and almost half the bulk of the car had followed them before the fright ened passengers could leap from their seats. The four sprang as one, landing in a heap on the forwasd part Of the car. Pausin0 scarce fraction Of second to gather strength for second leap, they threw thetnseaves to the road, where scores of spectators breathless with horror rushed forwaEd to lift them. That the Automobile dld not fall was resarosd @ littie ahoet Of mira. cle. Ten days bekoce touring car had simfAr accident
 M3ss Haggerty. oqe q the women in the car, proved herself heroine after her first natntai impulse to spring from the auto when was backing at full spe&d was Sestratned by her father. From that moment she vas tndepend- ent as any -of her companions. None of the men could haze saved her. and if she had not joined them in the com mon effort to hold the machine on the viaduct she must have per4shed. There was no time even for her father, who cat beside her, to gather her in his arms for a leap. Her oRrn strength and wit were her only hope. She made the two jumps from the rear seat to the front of the car and thence to the road with the agility of gymnast. Then, almost fainting in the reaction from the terrible moment Of suspense, she sank Imply into her fathers arms.
 Besides Miss Haggerty, there were in the car Mrs. w. A. Burke, daugh- ter of Thomas E. Crimmins and Justin O'Brien, son of Justice Morgan J. O'Brien. Louis Echel. nineteen years old, was the driver.
 The car stopped short when Eche' was steering 1t westward over the via duct near Eighth avenue. chain had broken, alN 1t must have throW;' 1 the lever to the reverse position ant, ] damned it there for before any of the persons in the car could aight it be ! gan backing swiftly Echel tried all
 the devices at his command to stop the
 auto or change its direction. but thf
 steering gear also failed him. and hi-
 efforts only increased the retrogr:id
 speed. Miss Haggerty, seeing the driv
 CT had lost control of the machine, at
 tempted to jump, but her father pre-
 vented her. In the next instant thf
 automobile smashed into the iron rail
 tearing off a strip almost twenty fee
 long. which crashed to the street, i'm
 periling those below.
 k Easily us a circus rider leapin! 3 through paper hoop the rear of tn | car burst the guard rail. Fortunatel. < there was enough resistance ill the iro \ to stop the driving gear. Apparentl E the shock broke enough more of til f already damaged machinery to offse \ the tragic tendency of the first fra( ture. Miraculously, it seemed, tn ' wheels did not turn in either directio \ from the moment the rear ones crashe U through the rail- A single revolutio ! either way might have resulted fatall q to the four persons in the car. As 8 was, their escape was so narrow ths one of them remarked 1t was the Ia: | time he would enter an automobil
 Echel hired a team of horses and ha
 the auto dragged to repair station.
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