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Show HEROIC CIRt; PREVENTS WRECK But for Operator's Presence of Mind. Two RocH Island Trains Would Have Been in Collision. HUTCHINSON, Kan.. Jan. I. Nora Bracken ride, nlsht talerraph operator at Arlington, near here, prevented a wreck of two Rock Ialand freight tralni Thura-day Thura-day night. Through a confusion of ordera, a wett-bound wett-bound freight train cleared from Arlington Arling-ton juat aa an eeetbound frelgrtit left Turon, two atationa weat. A moment later Mlaa Becktnrtdge waa ordered to hold the westbound train. Langdon station, which waa between the two trains. Is not a night telegraph office. After Miss Breckenridge had tried In vain to reach Langdon she resorted to the telephone and located John Spence. a farmer who lived near the railroad track. She told Spence the situation, and begged him to get a lantern, wrip It with a red cloth and hurry o the track. He did so and arrived In time to flag the westbound west-bound trsln, with tha second train only half a mile away. |