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COAL DUST IN MINES.

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ASLEEP ON THE LINE. SENSATIONAL INCIDENT NEAR NEWPORT. A sensational incident occurred on the Great Western Railway between M-arshfield and Cardiff on Friday evening. While the passenger train which leaves Bristol a,t 6.8 p.m. was reducing the distance between the two places named the driver, William Thorne (who is one of the oldest engine-drivers on the Great Western Railway system.) noticed some- thing lying on the rails ahead. He imme- diately shut- off steam, the fireman put on the bra.ke. and the train was stopped just in. the nick of time, for upon jumping off the engine and going to the spot where the object was Thorne found that the obstruction was a man lying, asleep, across the metals. The slumberer was awakened, and for a time seemed quite dazed. '7 .hF

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