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Show PREVENTS A WRECK; DIES Farmer Boy Stops Train but Is Crushed by the Locomotive. . ( . . . CHICAGO, Aug. C James' Jensen, a fanner boy, aged "1 -yearsT-wais tilled through his efforts to save a Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul passenger train from destruction near Corliss, 11L While the youth and his brother were crossing the track with a steam thresher thresh-er the machine became stalled. When the Milwaukee-Chicago passenger train came on James ran up the track waving wav-ing his straw hat, and so determined was he that he stood on the track, in the glare of the headlight, until he was borne down by the locomotive and crushed to death. The engineer saw him in tfcme to slacken speed, and though the locomotive locomo-tive crashed into the thresher, the train escaped a wreck. |