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Show TWO MEM DIE THAT T OTHERS MIGHT LIVE Chicago, Sept. 4. Two heroes in humblo walks in life died In tho dlschnrgo of their duty In Chicago today to-day that others might llvo. Llttlo moro than two hours apart a railroad flagman and a street enr motorman choso to perish sticking to their posts rather than to savo tholr own lives nt tho cost of others entrusted en-trusted to their enro. Tatrlck Glsslnger, past middle life nnd employed by tho Chicago, Mil-vnukco Mil-vnukco nnd St. Paul railroad as a crossing guard, was the first. James Johnson of Lngrnngu, running a enr on tho Lngrnngo lino of tho Suburban traction system, was tho second. Glsslnger leaped In front of a rapidly rap-idly moving train of freight cars shorlly nfter C o'clook this morning at tho Kingsbury street crossing nnd headed off a team of horses, tho driver driv-er of which had ignored tho moving of tho danger flag. Johnson, tho motormnn, was driving driv-ing his car, heavily loaded with passengers pas-sengers on their way to work toward the plnco whoro tho suburban lino crosses tho tracks of tho Douglas 'tr.t branch of tho Metropolitan ole-vatfed ole-vatfed railroad at Flfty-second avenue and West Twenty-second street. Tho tracks of tho clovnted road aro at street lovol hero. A four-cnr train oi) tho clovnted tracks swung Into view ns Johnson was heading Into iho crossing at full speed. There was just a chanco for life for tho motor-mnn motor-mnn If ho stuck to his post nnd thero wis almost no dnnger for him if ho lumped for safety. Hut to Jump would mean that tho luoAltnblo collision would occur nt top speed, with probably certain death for a score or moro of tho fifty passengers on tho enr, whllo to tighten tight-en tho brnkes as far nB possiblo nnd reduce speed meant that tho motor-man motor-man would bear tho heaviest shock of tho crash. After tho cars had crashed together tho motorman's body was dug out of tho wreckngo. Ho had stuck and tho Injuries to tho pnBBengcrs numbored only eight nono of whom wns seriously serious-ly hurt. |