Mower County Transcript

Fearful Experience.

Marvelous Escape of an Iowa Man on an Illinois Railroad.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Charles Griggs, a drug clerk, was taken to his home in Keokuk, Ia., suffering from the terrific nervous shock of a record-breaking hair-breadth escape. He was struck by the Milwaukee limited train on the Northwestern road, traveling at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, and carried six miles on the pilot of the locomotive in an unconscious condition. Though black and blue with bruises not a bone in his body was broken. Mr. Griggs was crossing the Northwestern track at Wilson avenue when the limited whirled in sight simultaneously with a suburban passenger train going rapidly in an opposite direction. Griggs was bewildered. There was no time to leap clear of the rails. With only the hope of delaying impending death Griggs jumped straight into the air. He was struck by the front of the engine and dropped half stunned on the pilot his hands instinctively clutching the braces. He was not found until the train reached South Evanston. He does not remember anything from the time he jumped until found. Although not a bone was fractured or even wrenched his recovery is considered doubtful.