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Show REWARD TO!! A RAILWAY HERO (Kdwardevllle. ill., Utter.) John F. Dlckman, the hero telegraph operator at Peters, near .'here, will be substantially rewarded by the railroad company which be served so faithfully JOHN P D1CKMAN, J and to such good purpose one night re- cently. Dlckman wna employed a night telegraph operator at the Peter station. While crossing the railroad yard to deliver an order to tho en-Klnter en-Klnter of a Height train he waa (truck by a through tniln and thrown forty fret from tho track He lay unconscious n few minute. Itit when he came to hn remembered that tho order he wa to have delivered to tho engineer was to detain the train At Peter Hn crawled up the etn-Imnkment etn-Imnkment to sen If the train had gone. Ills progress was slow, 11 both hi leg were broken and ho had sustained a deep wound In tho head When he reached the top of the embankment he saw that the train had departed He knew that unless he rould reach the telegraph Instrument In thn station nnd slop tho train In lima it would trash Into the regular passenger train that would soon lenvu Madison. It was a hard rare, but tha man won. It was believed tbat Dlckman would die from his Injuries but the strong constitution con-stitution that stood him In good elcud that night promise to triumph over his Injuries, ami he I now well on the way toward recovery. |