Releasing his grip on the mober,
Smith tried to control his runaway
steeds with both hands, and while he
was tugging at the lines the thief
jumped from the wagon and escaped.
ONE KILLED AND TWO HURT
Locomotive Plunges Off a Trestle
Near St. Paul.
Thomas Bird of St. Paul, a switch
man, was instantly killed when
a locomotive of the St. Paul Bridge
and Terminal railroad jumped the
tracks at the east end of the com
pany's new bridge at South Park, near
St. Paul, and plunged of? a twenty
foot trestle, alighting upside down not
far from the Hver.
Bird was caught under the engine
and his life crushed out.
James Thurston, the engineer,
jumped from the cab as the engine
plunged down the embankment. Ben
jamin Cooke, the fireman, was unable
to escapo from the cab. Both men
were severely Injured.
MINNEAPOLIS MILLS BUSY
Working Night and Day to Meet
tnand for Plour.
Every shipping record in the mill
ing history of Minneapolis was broken
when the railroads took out 556 ears,
containing 11(1,560 barrels of flour, in
one day.
Solid trains of flour were moved out
by most of the roads. If the cars
could have been linked end to en«t,
they would havo made a train more
than three miles long.
The mills have, all been in operation
for the past ten days, and the indus
try is active beyond precedent. Run
ning day and night and Sunday to
meet the demand, they are predftefng
flour in enormoud quantity.
