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Show WOMAN FLAGS TRAIN; SAVE HUNDRED LIVES RAILROAD CAMP COOK HEARS CRASH OF BRIDGE ABUTMENT AND WARNS ENGINEER. St. Louis. Through tho quick wit and prompt nctlon of a woman In flagging flag-ging tho Santa Ko's "California Limited" Limit-ed" early tho othor morning nt Hart, Mo., as tho heavy train was about to plungo through a damaged trestle, tho lives of over n hundred passengers woro saved, nnd what might havo A Lantern Light Was Seen Waving Down tho Track. proved ono of tho most disastrous railroad catastrophes of a nunibor of years averted. Tho woman to whom so many awo their lives is Mrs. Minnie Min-nie Hnrtusholl of Ethel, Mo a cook for n railroad camp near Hart. According to passengens who woro nwakoncd Boon nftor 3 o'clock In tho morning to make tho transfer ucross tho creek tit Hurt the "California Limited" Lim-ited" had left Kansas City in tho evening nearly two hours Into and wns running at a high rnto of speed to mako up tlmo into Chicago. At Unit n trestle of considerable length spans a small river at a height or about eoventy foot. Tho tracks approach tho trestle on a curve, thus obstructing obstruct-ing tho vlow of the engine nion, As tho heavy train consisting of eight or nine Pullman cur with tholr sleeping occupants approached tho brldgo nnd was less than half a mllo BBj from It a lantern light was scon wav- BBJ lug down the track by tho engineer. BBJ The first Intimation that passengers hnd that all wns not right was tho BBJ grinding shock of the airbrakes. Thus BBJ aroused they hurried out ot tho coach- BBj cs and found tho englncor and train-men train-men conferring with n woman. Sho oxplnlhcd that tho abutment which BlH supported the trestle on tho western B sldo had fallen In and that tho tracks BBj and trcsllo work woro merely hang- B Ing. Train officials and passengers BBj who went ahead to tho brldgo found her statement true nnd shuddered at BBj tho thought of their near cscapo from BH a death plungo to tho creek bottom. kBj Passengers saved by tho woman for- mulatcd a sot or resolutions, which B woro sent to tho president or tho road. BBj asking for a propor reward for Mrs. Hartushell. A collection was taken up and presented to her. 'H |