A Very Narrow Escape

Brakeman Frank Reynolds, of Ypsilanti, had a very narrow escape frora death in the Michigan Central yards here on Saturday. He was coupling cars and had the pin set to drop into the link. As the engine and oars were backing down on to the car on whioh the pin was set he noticed that it was dropping and slantiug towards him. Quiok as a flash, as the link struck the pin, Reynolds ducked his head and it was a luoky thing for him that he did, for had he not done so he would have been a dead man. The force of the train striking the car shot the pin out of the draw bar as if f rom a catapult. It struok Reynolds a glancing blow on the top of his head, knocking him senseless, and it was carried 25 feet beyond where he was standing. Reynolds was oarried into the freight office and Dr. Breakeywas summcned, who tookthree stitohes in the wound to close it up. When he recovered consciousness he was not so badly injured but that he oould go home on his traito.