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Show CHOOSES TO' DIE ".WITH LITTLE ONE lincoln. Neb.. 'Feb U Unable to pull her 5-year-old daughter Phoebe a foot from the board crossing of a railroad track, where it had become fastened, Mrs U. S. MilHkon today chose rather to stay and die with tho child than to desert it at such a time and calmly faced a fast approaches locomotive. Both were struck and Instantly In-stantly killed, their bodies being thrown fifty feet in the air. The accident occurred In a deep cut to the west of the city and while the pair on tho tracks could be seen by the locomotive crew for 100 yards, they wore unable to stop the train. Mrs. Milllken and her little daughter daugh-ter had been picking up coal on the Rock Island right of way and had Just finished, according to eyewitnesses eyewit-nesses who saw the affair, but were too far away to assist The little girl's foot got caught in a frog and she was unable to releaso IL The motlfer worked desperately as thev heard tho train approaching, but was unablo to release the foot. Finally, when the train was almost upon them, she stood erect, placing herself between' tho child and the locomotive The de?.d woman was the wife of a day laborer and very poor. |