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Show FIREMAN PERFORMS DEED OF HEROISM OF HIGH TYPE NEW YORK. Feb. 3. Frederick Mayer, o fireman, driver of a truck of engine cnmpaiiv 301. 1m dying in a Brooklyn hos-1 pltal after performing a splendid deed of heroism when driving to h. tiro Into Inst night. His horses wore on a. full run when, directly in his path, Mayer saw u youryr girl, panic stricken. Close to her on one side stood a trolley car rilled with passengers;, on the other side was one of the tall iron pillar of the elevated railway. If ho kept n'n he would run down the girl: if he turned to the right he would endanger the lives of the passengers. In tlie twinkling of an eye. Mayer yelled to tho tlreme'n clustered along the sides of the truck to jump, gave the reins a mighty tug and ran full tilt into tho iron pillar." There v.as a crash, the horsos were Itirnwn down and badly Injured, tho truck-was truck-was overturned, and Mayer was pinned tinder it. with skull fractured, leg broken and his body crushed. |