NARROW ESCAPE FROM A TERRIBLE DEATH.
A Car Jumps Off a Thirty Foot Embankment.
[Special to the Telegram,]Olean, Aug. 14.- A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Four Mile Station, on the Olean, Bradford & Warren railroad. While Conductor Murphy, William Crane and George Cook, were attempting to run an empty car by gravity on the Olean, Bradford, and Warren Railway from Four-Mile Station to Olean, the car got away from them, by the brake giving away, and plunged down the track at a terrific rate. The men dare not jump off, and clung to the bottom of the ear for dear life.: After running a mile and a half at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour the car jumped over a trestle, a distance of thirty feet to the ground. When the men were picked up it was found that Crane had his spine wrenched and a compound fracture of the leg, and Cook suffered a dislocated hip and was badly bruised, and Murphy was badly bruised about the body. The men were removed to Olean and medical aid summoned. It is thought none of the injuries are fatal, though some of them are very painful.
Narrow Escape from a Terrible Death
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