Evening star., 1933-12-31

Holman, who was So, was found
dead of a fractured skull in the cellar of his
home with a moose of insulated wire clutched
in his hand and box at his feet The cor
oner said he believed Holman fell and struck
his dead while cropping in the dark for place
to tie the loop.
Now when a man intent upon escaping this
vale of tears can't even commit suicide with
out having Old Man Accident step up and slap
him down before he can get the moose tied
tight around his neck, what can the rest OF
us who still have hankering to live, expect?
Well we might depend upon luck Or
toughness Some of the oldest mishaps OF
1898 as a matter of fact, were really not &C
cidents at all, but marvellous escapes
For instance near Pana, Ill, an automobile
nosed onto New York Central crossing Just as
q passenger train travelling 10 miles an hour
arrived at the same place.
The train stopped a mile down the track
The crew lifted auto radiator and two
wheels of the locomotive pilot and started back
to the crossing looking for bodies. There they
found the remainder of the automobile, upright,
its windows and windshield unbroken, but the
radiator and wheels cut off cleanly as with
q knife Inside were Thomas ReSinans and
James Kirel, unscratched and unbruiSed, but
still speechless from fright.
A MOTHER fortunate gentleman who ad-
~ mitted at the time that he would about as
soon be killed as scared to death was Harold
Mclean Chicagoan.
witnesses gasped in horror as they saw a
fast travelling street car strike and run over
him With grinding brakes the car came to
stop some distance away. dragging Mclean
with it.
He was pinned under the trucks and extri-
Gated with difficulty. He was apparently dead,
but an ambulance rushed him to the hospital
As an inferno prepared to make superficial
examination Mclean suddenly opened his eyes,
Strengthened up, and announced he was all
right He was. He returned home under his
own power. suffering only few minor cuts
and bruises
Toughness honors in 1888 were carried OH
by four youngsters and one adult. Samuel
Malbin of Cleveland gets first prize He
dropped from the fourteenth floor of a down.
town hotel and suffered no more than frac-
tured arm. where's my hat?" he asked as
horror stricken bystanders picked him up.
Two-year-ol Luetta Leduc of Montreal was
thrown SO feet when a passenger train roareo
by cutting both handles from the wheelbarrow
on which she was sitting but she picked herself
up unhurt The 19-month-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs M B. Rudd of Seaside, Greg, fell out
of a second-story window onto frozen ground,
got up and toddled back into the house again,
possibly to try the trick all over again at the
next opportunity.
Arthur King, 3, was struck a glancing blow
by train going a mile a minute, but was
unhurt. Kenneth Davis, 14-year-old Chicago
had, was struck by a sedan and knocked under
. moving street car, but suffered only split lip.
JACK MILLER of Carlyle, H., made bid
~ for toughness honors, but couldn't stand
the pace. One morning he fell 80 feet from
the municipal water tower, under construction,
but uninjured. Later in the day he slipped
again. this time falling feet to his death
Chicago
N q fall from the fourth story Of his home.