Show TRAINED NURSE IS OF WRECK ml PLUNGES INTO WORK AMONG THE INJURED AND saives ENGINEERS ENGINEER IP LIFE TAKES CHARGE OF turns station waiting room into a hospital and heroically Per performs forme duty midat groans of dying which turned brave men away washington ind officials and em cm aloyes of the baltimore ohio rail road and the people of this vicinity have not gotten through praising the heroic action of a brine brae trained nurse who amea the life of an injured en elneer and ministered to the wants ol of others hurt in the wreck of a train at ft ritner in lawrence county recently there la Is talk of presenting a medal to the woman five men were killed when two fast freight trains one a double header met headon head on both tr traveling aeling at hibb speed the smash up came on a sharp curve three engines were demol dished and fifteen box cars were re deuced to kindling wood while hot water from the locomotives poured d over the unfortunate engl engi nemen pin toned beneath the wreckage that one more fatality was not add ed to the grew some list mas brought about abbout by the pluck of the nurse mrs fr af M C mckinney cKinney IkI of no W chest I 1 nut street louisville ky luck ma may y have alave had something to do with hei bet being there but her courage and will dingness to aid the dying aie cespon sible for the engineers life the fatal wreck occurred a little after seven one of the coldest mornings this winter soon after the trains met passenger train no 4 ar rived at ft ritner the wreck was wag 40 rods east of the station the en gine from the passenger train was as un coupled and with the tha trainmaster ab aboard 0 ard was run to the scene of the wreck frank wells the engineer on the freight train was taken from the wreck badly injured ile he was placed on the pilot of the passenger engine and hurried to the little station wet cold and bleeding one leg was man aled his breast crushed and two to dangerous gerotis injuries were about the head cliff Al arkle an engineer on the louis ville was wae on train no 4 and being a friend of the injured roan man helped carry hini him back to the station but no sooner was the man on a cot in the tha station than off th the e ger train jumped a comely oung loung woman boldly she stepped to the side of the cot and offered assistance an noun bouncing cing that she was a trained nurse and that she was aas ready to do anything f saving life of the injured engineer io aid the injured without balting Nal ting tor orders she threw off her coat rolled her sleeves above her albos emd with a small handbag of medi vines and instruments at her side took charge of the injured man it took but an instant for those about her to see that she knew abat she was about with deft lingers the nurse ran a knife through the mans man s grimy cloth ing and with the assistance of the in lured roans mans friends soon bad him in hot blankets working rapidly and giving directions as swiftly as an old timer she began rendering relief out of a little receptacle came a mic syringe and stimulants she bared the patients arm and sent a drug into the mans blood just in ume to revive the heart action before it was too late to her skilled eyes soon came the knowledge that anima tion sufficient to ward off death had been started for three hours she worked without a seconds rest resl when the train started to seymour to the hospital the nurse was by walls walla side and not until the corn com panya surgeon at the hospital ap feared did she leave her patient when some one told dr gresley what had been done and after he had bad made an examination of the injuries he be simple said well here is one life that ape we wreck will not claim for the herol heroic work of this woman edly has saved paved him |