| Show A mothers sacrifice lincoln neb eb unable to to pull her fhe five eai old daughter phoebe s foot from the board crossing of a railroad roil roid trick ii here it had become fastened mis alis U S milliken chose raaf er to stay ind and die with the child than to debert desert it at such a time and calmly faced a fast approaching lo 10 co motive both incie struck ind and instantly killed their bodies being thrown w fifty feet in the air 11 the th e aident aco dent occurred in a deep cut to the west of the city ind and whiled the pair on the tracks could be seen been by the locomotive chew for yards they were unable to stop the ti thain ain mrs milliken and the little girl had been picking up coal oil on the rock I island iland land right of way nay and had bad finished according to eye witnesses who saw the affair but were too far away to assist the little girl s foot got caught in a flog and she was unable to release it the mother wolken desperately as they heard the train approaching appio aching but was un able to release the foot finally ft ni hen the tr trim tin was almost upon them she stood erect placing her self beewen the child and the loco ry etive the dead woman was the wife of a day laborer and deiy poor |
