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Show FROM STAYING AT POST HEROIC MOTOR-MAN MAY HAVE TO GIVE HIS LIFE ST. LOUIS, July 16. One person was probably fatally injured and fifty others were mere or less bruised and badly shaken up by a rear-end collision col-lision on a downhill grade between a Broadway and a Seventh street car last night. The accident was due to a broken trolley on the Seventh street car. Owing to his heroism In sticking" to his post In the face of danger. Motor-man Motor-man John C. Downs of the Broadway car will probably die. He was- unconscious un-conscious when pried from under the wreckage. Downs was hurried to the St John's hospital, where physiolans stated they feared he would not recover. re-cover. . When the stalled car was sighted Downs cut oft the power and applied the brakea The . passengers were not aware of the danger until the ears crashed together. Downs was crushed between the vestibule and the door of the car. The cars were In soon a wrecked condition that they could not be run with their own power. |