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Show HOLY MOSES, ELEPHANT, AVERTS A TRAIN WRECK Limited Going Fifty Miles nn Hour Thunders By When Animal Pushes Wagon from Track. St. Louis. Tho strength of Holy Moses was all that saved tho Alton limited from being wrecked nt tho Chicago & Alton grndo crossing In Alton Al-ton tho other day. Holy Mosc3 Is an elephant, nnd In rownrd for pushing a collapsed animal wagon from Its position on tho tracks he was given all the peanuts ho wanted to cat. When It was seen that tho horses wore powerless to tako tho heavy wagon off the track, Abdallah, keeper of Holy Moses, was told to bring tho elephnnt forth. As Abdallah drovo the elephant leisurely toward tho wrecked wagon a man ran up with an oxclted cry: "Tho llmltod Is coming; you'll havo to move that wagon quick!" In tho dlstnnco a long drawn whistle announced an-nounced tho advent of tho train speeding speed-ing SO miles nn hour. Kneeling, Holy Moses placed his enormous bead against tho rear of tho I wagon. Tho thunder of tho coming train grow more distinct. Moses braced himself, bent his big head igaln to tho task, tugged, strained, groaned, and, with a final supremo tffort, started tho wagon. Agnln ho ivaa goaded, and, with the roar of tho locomotive so close that It seemed Impossible to avoid a wreck, moved tho wagon slowly forward. Rounding a curve, a whltcfaced engineer en-gineer leaned from tho cab of his flying fly-ing engine whllo the whlstlo shrieked. Holy Moses, exerting every ounco ot his Immenso strength, pushed th HUi.J MOSKB HIS Krill-Ni.Tll. I i Blllill THIS WAGON i t. UAH O THK TKACIC. wagon elenr ot tho track and him Fclf lumbered off Just beforo tho train thundered past. |