Show SAVED HER LIM 0 h youner Young woman hangs beneath a trestle aa as a train rePast clinging for her liar life to A rough benm while a lying flying express train tb thundered and swayed above her tier head swinging in inid tir with death above ind and below her until almost exhausted by the fatigue that came of th 9 terrible etrain strain upon her tier physically ally and mentally tall this irlis woe was the dire in which miss nornia of ridgway avenue avondale wo was placed ono one afternoon ter noon and it wan was only duo to her cool judgment and calm calin presence of nind that sho 1 did not nie meet etith with rb shocking death in to cross ii it railroad trestle which a spans an the rocky bed of moody atun a fad little bod 11 north of Avon dulu 1 was run down by an exar express ss train tho the chigin eer cr of which bich wae was endeavoring to make up for loaf lot time by running at full fremd to prevent being hurled from tho to trestle she woe was compelled to let herst if down on the outside of the track and liang hang on until ehe she was rescued with mr It kichard ichard hall rail of walnut hills and misa bliss nannie of avondale eho she started out for a walk they went along tho the 0 cincinnati nein nati and lebanon and northern narrow gauge railroad toward lebanon and aft an they reached the air mr hall and miss bliss fisher lidd back fearing to meet a train hiss bliss though knowing it to be near train time thought to cross the tho trestle before the train could come she was aa abo about u t half ay ny over ever when the montgomery accommodation due in at 2 35 whistled she looked up and was hornlien horn lied to see the train driving toward hir with great speed it was nas train no 12 of which bd ed F doherty is conductor and lee barnara barnard trainman and awas it was traveling balwen I 1 thirty five and forty miles an hour when miss bliss saw the train coming toward her tier slie title displayed a wonder wonderful tul presence of mind b by throwing herself over the side of ye the trestle and there clinging to the timber the engineer engine cr george collins scein seeing the and lady at alie other end of the trestle re cried the engina and stopped topped as soon as possible but it was not until he lie had passed miss misi some distance running back on the trestle doherty and barnard foch pach took one of miss bliss On ondene kenAs hands pulled her up on the track her iler face was black and blue and she site was more dead than alt alive e she v was as exhausted and could hove have held on but a very short time longer without help just at that time st alio aa r would have fallen into the ei deek eek twenty feet or more below her tier after resting a few she was able to resume her walk none the for hei harrowing experience the spot where taj scene occurred is noted not edlor for accad accidents ants on the ath of july last an old colored u woman was N as thrown from the trestle and dreadfully in aured ared breaking tu two 0 of her tier limbs and fracturing her skull A few weeks ago theresae there wae a collision at this 3 point and one of the Latt battered ered engines is still hall burned in the mud there cincinnati enquirer |