He Was Called The Miracle Man
In 2006, while working in the railroad yard as a switchman in Cleburne, Texas, Truman Duncan fell off the train. He tried to run backward to avoid being run over by the 20,000-pound train. Unfortunately, he was pulled beneath the wheels.
This horrendous accident almost sliced him in half, and he knew he was in trouble. He had been dragged some 75 feet as he saw the blood pouring over him and started growing weak. The weight of the train was probably stopping him from bleeding out.
Duncan reached for his cell phone to call 911. “I’ve been hit by a train and need an ambulance.” Duncan then called his family to tell them he was hurt and loved them. It took the responders 45 minutes to find him in the railroad yard. The paramedics found him, and as they saw him under the train's wheels, they couldn’t believe he was still alive. One of the paramedics, his odds would be a million to one to survive.
Duncan was airlifted to a Ft. Worth hospital, where doctors were amazed he was alive. Doctors and nurses cleaned the gravel, dirt, and grass from his wounds for the next three hours in the ER. Duncan was placed in a coma for the next three weeks while over twenty surgeries were performed.
Duncan’s left leg was amputated at his hip, the right leg was amputated above the knee, and he lost a kidney. Duncan’s attitude and will to survive played a…
