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Show KATE SHELLEY'S DELAYED REWARD. After Nino Tears Her Unselfish Daring Gets Recognition. Brave Kate Shelley need no longer fear for the safety of her little home near Moingona, la. The mortgage, to pay the interest on which she toiled at school teaching, has been lifted through the instrumentality of The Chicago Tribune, Tri-bune, and the surplus of the fund raised will be devoted to improving the little farm that affords a living to the family dependent on Miss Shelley's labor for support her widowed mother aud young sisters and brother. WHERE THE HEROINE LIVES. The girl's story? It is s simple one of everyday heroism accentuated and made known by one deed of splendid daring. Between Boone and Moingona (five miles) the Northwestern railway crosses twenty-one bridges. On the night of July 6, 1881, a storm piled up the water in Des Moines river and Honey creek and swept away ten of these structures. A freight train crashed into the creek near Kate Shelley's house. The girl hurried out into the midnight tempest and rescued the engineer and fireman. Then she crawled over the ties of the Des Moines river bridge, ran to Moingona station, stopped tho on rushing passenger train, saved 130 lives and fell fainting on the track. The country rang with praises of her magnificent intrepidity, but the substantial substan-tial reward was small. The railway company gave her $100 and the state of Iowa voted her a gold medal. The excitement ex-citement over ,tha 13-year-old maiden maid-en resumed her daily battle with poverty, and kept it up cheerfully and uncomplain- ingly. She had 1 dropped from general view un- til last Bpring a KATE SHEUJY-writer SHEUJY-writer visited her home. - He found the young woman keeping her family together to-gether and trying to pay interest on mortgage out of a schoolteacher's salary of $35 a month. He retold the story of her gallant deed. This is not a bad world, hut a forgetful one, and the moment mo-ment the public were reminded of tho case contributions poured in for Kato Shelley's benefit. Now the mortgage is paid, and the heroine of Moingona has over 500 in bank and some forty matrimonial matri-monial offers under consideration. |