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Had a Narrow Escape.Alfred Helms, who resides about seven*miles south of this city, narrowly escaped death last Saturday night, while on his way home from Attica. He with his wife came to town Saturday morning to do some trading, and, as is Mr, Helms failing, he took on a little too much tangle fluid. When the time in the afternoon came for going home Mrs. H. persuaded her husband, to no avail, to return with her. After coaxing and waiting^around till late in the afternoon, she reluctantly left for home without her husband. Between five and six o'clock he must have started towards home, aiming to follow the Attica and Covington branch of the Wabash as a guide. As the train on this road was making its last trip to Covington? Engineer John Hale saw him lying by the side of the railroad track at Widewater, just south of the city. Then as they returned, about 7:30 in the evening, they run onto him sitting on the side of the bridge across the Nave Branch, just at the south border of the gravel pit. The road makes a curve just below that point and Helms was not discovered in time to stop the train before reaching him.As fortune would have it, he was far enough from the track to escape being ground beneath the wheels, nothing striking him but the steps of the coach. This was serious enough, however, as he sustained the fracture of the seventh rib, besides internal injuries the extent of which could not be determined further than it gave him a very sore side. He was brought to this city on the train that struck him, carried to the MayorVoffice where Dr. Rice, the railroad physician, assisted by Dr. Rupert, dressed the wound. He was taken to his home Monday morning in a spring wagon, still being very sore from the effects of the bump he received. The probability is that he will recover.
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Attica Fountain and Warren Democrat
Attica, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 20, 1893
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