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Horrible accident. --Wm. Anderson, an old gentleman sixty years of age, and a prominent citizen of Littsville, N. Y., was killed at Utica, on Wednesday last, by being run over in attempting to leap on a train while in motion. He was standing on the platform and the train had moved off a few feet. The Journal says: Mr. Anderson hurried out with his spectacles in one hand and a roll of bank bills in the other, and attempted to get aboard the first car. He caught hold of the railing of the rear platform of the first car with his right hand, and attempted to seize the iron railing of the other car with his left hand; but his left hand either slipped off or missed its grasp entirely, which caused his body to swing down between the two cars. The fall wrenched his right hand from its hold, and he fell across the inside rail. James Cole, the brakesman, was standing upon the rear platform of the first car when Mr. Anderson attempted to get on, and seeing him fall, made an effor