A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 245, 10 January 1889, Page 2

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

SENSATIONAL' EXPERIENCE OF A PRINCESS. BUN OVER BY A TBAIN. St Petersburg, Jan. 8. The Princess Helena was driving in • sledge along the Charkoff railway when het conveyance was overtaken by a train. The driver of the sledge was killed, and the Princess was knocked senseless. The train actually passed over her, but she escaped uninjured.

The preservation of the Imperial family at the recent railway disaster, according to the description of persons who were in the same carriage, is almost incredible. The valet who was in the act of tendering a cup of coffee to the emperor was killed. Prince Sberemetieff, who sat near his Majesty, was so fatally hurt that no hope is entertained of his recovery. The little Grand Duchess Oigs, asleep in a hammock in another car, was shot at a considerable distance by the violence of the shock on to a bed of soft mud, and was subsequently found in a faint, but unhurt. The Empress as soon as she began to understand whqt had happened, insisted upon going along the line to see to the wounded, and perceiving a Cossack with a great gash in his head, from which blood was flowing, knelt down to wipe it with her handkerchief, but she soon became aware that the man was dead, and fell down senseless. Five hours they passed in this dreadful place, for though another train had arrived for them, the Emperor and Empress would not leave the 4 till the last body had been dug out and wounded sent o£