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Show TRAIN SAVED FROM WRECK. Laborer Discovers Train Wreckers snd Prevents Disaster. Redding, Cal. llecause a waterworks water-works employee here worked late Sunday night the Oregon express, southbound on the Southern Pacific railroad, was saved from probable wreckage and robbery. J. F. Johnson, Lie employee, was, using the railroad track as a short cut borne when, a quarter of a mile from town, be stumbled upon a pile of ties and iron heaped across the rails. He stopped to examine them and when he straightened up four men pushed revolvers In his face. "Get out of hero, and tion't come back," said one. Johnson followed Instructions. From , a water tank be telephoned the po- , lice and the station agent and the train was flagged. Two men loitering in the railroad yards were arrested. |