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Show ""' COURAGE SAVED HER LIFE. A Young Woman Hun ft Itenealh a Trentle a Train Thundere Above. Clinging for her life to a rough beam while a flying express train thundered and swayed above her head. Swinging in midair with death above and below her nut il almost exhausted by the fatigue that cameof 1ho terrible strain upon her, J hysli'ully and mentally. Thin was the dire predicament in which Mis J.'orn-.a Onken, of Ridgeway avenue, ave-nue, Avondnle, was placed one afternoon, after-noon, und it was only doe to her cool Judgment and calm presence of mind that she did not meet with a shoekimr death. In at tempting tocrm-s a railroad trestle which spans tho rocky bod of Eloody Run, a little bed uoriii of Avon-Ja!e, Avon-Ja!e, hhe was run down by an express raiu, the engineer of which was endeavoring en-deavoring lo make up for lost time by running at full speed. To prevent being hurled from the trestlo she was coia-jel!rd coia-jel!rd to let herself down on the outside of tho trick and hang on until she Wiue rescued. With Mr. Richard Hall, r,f Walnut Hills, and Miss Nannie Fisher, of Avon-dale, Avon-dale, she started out for a walk. They went along tho Cineinri.'.fc and Lebanon nnd Northern Narrow Uvuigo railroad toward Lebanon, and na they reached tho trestle Mr. Hall and Miss Fisher hold back, fearing to moot a, train. Mis Onken, though knowing it to lo near train time, thought to cross tho trestle before the train could come. She was about half way over when the jrntgomer' accommodation, due in Cincinnati at 2:!!j. whistled. She looked up and was h.irriliod to see the train driving toward her with great speed. It was train No. 13, of which Kd. F. Poherry is conductor and Leo Barnard trainman, and it was traveling between thirty-five nnd forty miles an hour. When Miss Onken saw the train corning toward her 'jho displayed a wonderful presence of mind by throwing herself ever the side of the trestle and there clinging to the timber. The engineer, George Collins, peeing the pentleman and lady at the other end of the trestle, reversed the engine and stopped as soon as possible; but it wiui not until he had passed Miss Onken some distance. Running back on the trestle Ikiherty and Barnard each took one of Miss Oukon's bunds and pulled her np on the track. Her face was black and bhi, and she was more dead than alive. She was exhausted and could have held on but a very short time longer. Without help just at that time she would have fallen into the creek twenty feet or more below her. After resting a few moments she was able to resume her walk, none tho worse . for her harrowing experience. The spot where the scene occurred is noted for accidents. ac-cidents. On the 4th of July last an old colored woman was thrown from the trestle and dreadfully injnred, breaking two of her limbs nnd fracturing her skull. Three weeks ago there was a collision col-lision (it thin point, nnd one of tho battered bat-tered engines is still half buried in the mnd there. Cincinnati Enquirer. J |