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Show KNEELS IH PRAYER AS SHE WAITS FOB DEATH Young Woman Held Prisoner on Railroad Trestle Mangled v by Train. WILMINGTON, Del., Aujj. 24. Kneeling in prayer after she had struggled strug-gled vainly to free her foot from between be-tween the iics of n Btilt.imore & Ohio railroad trestle, Miss Elizabeth lloth-well, lloth-well, a young woman of this city, was ground to pieces by a freight train yesterday near Brandywinc Springs park. Her aunt, Mrs. liichard Both-well, Both-well, and a young cousin, liichard llotb-wpll, llotb-wpll, who were with her at the time, were both injured. There was a farmers' fair at the park and hundreds of persons saw tho tragedy. Miss Rothwell, her aunt and her cousin, cou-sin, had gone to thn fair together, and woro croHsing tho trestle tn take n car home, when a whistle warned them that the train was approaching. They turned to run back, but when thoy Haw that they were more than half? way across they wheeled about. again to run in the other direction. In doing so Miss Eothwell's right foot slippcu bo-l.woon bo-l.woon tho ties nnd became llrmly wedged. Mrs. Rolhwell lumped, alighting on the bank twenty feet beloWand breaking break-ing several 'bones. Tho boy was too bewildered to move and the engine struck him, tossing him off tho Bido of the trestle. Then Miss Rothwell was killed. |