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Show HERO SAVES WOMAN AND : CHILD FROftl AWFUL DEATH Helpless Ones Would Have Been Crushed Under Flying Fly-ing Hoofs but for Stranger's Bravery. laborer heroically dashed straight for the heads of the horses, waving his cap in air, high over head and shouting loudly. The horses were but a few yards distant dis-tant from the kneeling woman when the laborer dashed to the spot and barely succeeded in swerving the horses from their course. They divided, one going to the right I and the other to the left, and passed not more than four or five feet apart, with the little group between them. The animals galloped around the Corner, west on Second South street, and were oon captured. The laborer helped the frightened woman wo-man to a nearby drug store and, as she turned to get his name, she found that he, with the true modesty of a hero, had slipped away, unobserved. The woman, wo-man, too, soon afterward left the drug store, also declining to give her nam. V - The thrilling escape of a woman and young boy from being trodden to death under the feet of a pair of fear-maddened horses and a heroic action on the part of a bystander, which probably saved the lives of the woman and child, were seen at the corner of State and Second South streets Saturday night. A portly woman, leading a small boy by tho hand, stepped from a northbound north-bound car and, their attention diverted, failed to observe whtvt was going on about them. About half a block to the southward the clattering of hoofs was heard. Two Urge black draft horses, with only halters and tie straps on their head, riderless, driverless, dashed toward the unobservlnfj woman and child, and for a few seconds death in an awful form seemed certain for them. Swiftly the terror-stricken horses, snorting at a fancied danger, with nostrils nos-trils distended and fiery, with foam flecked sides, flashing eyes and flying manes and tails,, bore down upon the pair, who were awakened from their seeming reverie by the thundering volley vol-ley of sound made by the iron-shod hoofs upon the hard pavement. When she saw how imminent was her peril, the woman's self-possessloni forsook for-sook her. She dropped to her knees in the dirt of the pavement and. gathering her child in her arms, awaited her doom. When the horses were close to the woman and child the full horror of their situation burst upon the few men who were at the corner, awaiting their cars. Several started toward the pair, but all the others were outstripped by a grimy laborer with his dinner pail on ' his arm. Dropping the pall in the gutter, the |