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Show HERO'S LEAP SAVES ; c M ; , ' . v,. 1 ' WOHAW FROM TRASH. " ;-'--;-; .; . NEW TORK. March 6. Leaping - In front of a slxty-tnlle-an-hpur express,, ' Nelson D. Smith., a wholesale lumber dealer, risked his own life to save an old woman who stood bewildered on the' tracks directly ia the path, of the train, at Mlneola, I I. While many persons stood rooted to 'the station platftonn I with horror, and it seemed certain Chat the woman- would be ground to cVMh Smith projected himself through th. kalr: land landed with sufficient; forc, io throw both of them to the other .sck.i I So close was the woman's escape that' aa she was dashed out of the locomo-: tive's way, the cowcatcher of the engine scraped her foot. . ( . ; Mrs.; Amelia Dietx, the woman who was saved, had purchased a ticket for, Queens,, from where she Intended to take a troUey to Brooklyn and visit her, son. George t Uefert, , of No. 20 Lewis avenue. . - 1. i. |