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Show IB HER EHE ESCKSIW Caught on High Trestle, Saves Life hy Lying Down Between Be-tween Rails. ASIIEVILLI3, N. C, Aug. 4. Caught on a high trestle Just beyond the Buigin tunnel on the, Southern Railway, between this city and Old Fort, Miss Nellie Smith of Ruthorfordton, this state, throw herself her-self between tho rails In front of a passenger pas-senger train today and miraculously escaped es-caped death when the englnee." brought his train to a standstill over her prostrate pros-trate body. When tho excited train crew and pas-sengors pas-sengors guthercd to pick out what they expected to bo tho young woman's mangled man-gled body, they were told by a muffled voice from beneath the engine that alio was unhurt. Tho train was backed Into tho tunnel and there was revealed to the astonished gaze of passengers and. crow the llguro of a woman covered with cinders cin-ders and drenched with, water, but unharmed. un-harmed. Miss .Smith was taken aboard the train to Old Fort. |