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Show mmmmmmm ' PINNED UNDER ENGINE, ORDERS LEG CUT OFF I VICTIM HANDS KNIFI TO PREACH EM AND WATCHES HIM HACK AT TENDONS 81 lmli J A MrKlttrlck lay nn; dor the wreck of a locomotive atler a rolllaion the other day Ilia left leg, eruehed by tbe engine a weight, was held Immovably, (raiding team biased around him Calmly, McKlttrlck took bit knife from hi trnuaer pocket and handing It to one or the men who were vainly trying to extricate him, aald "Flnlab cutting off that leg or mine, will youT II II never be any good now and I don t want to He bent and die" It was to Rev H C Allen. SO years , old a preacher, or drove City, I'a that MrKHlrlrk gav hla knife, and with fortitude alim.at luual to that "Get an Axl" Said McKlttrlck. I or hi 'patient" the preacher aurgenn cut off that leg ' It happened that Mra llenner, a tra'ned nurte, going from the stale of Washington to her home In t'lndnnatl, waa on the train he ministered to McKlttrlck who waa taken to the Mlaaoutl llaptlal sanitarium McKlttrlck. a atockmau, or llrook Held, Mo, taking a carload of cattle to Ihla city, waa riding In the cabooae of freight train No 71 on tbe lliir llngton railroad Near Port Itellelon talne. 1 1 mllrm north of Ml IjiuU, pat i engr train No II also liouiid tonlh Uraehed Into the freight which waa running lowly The loeomotlte which waa badly damaged, nmatlied Ifan caboose McKlttrlck was pinned race duwn by the englno, which v vred moat or thu muaclea or hla leg below the knee and'eruahed tlio bone Ihiya, can't you tan back thu ttcam n llttlo ntknl McKlttrlck of tho men tr Ing to rvleaio htm A dojen look aalulllaUud.aUMiubtoiLta.we.. awny the cloud of atoam. Jutt then Mra Itenncr ran up with a flask of whlaky and preeaed It to McKlttrlck' lip, mylug' "Drink aomo, It'll do jou good; brace you" 'Well, I'll try a llltlo of II." aald tho desperately Injured ronn, hesitatingly hesitat-ingly Then added- "Thnt'e the flrtt drop of tho atutr l'vo tasted for tiro yeara" Tho escaping tteom Increase,! In volume so that thoaa helping McKIt trick could scarcely remain by him Then he gave hla kntfn in ! nn Mr Alln Tho llgamenta In McKIt trick a leg remalnwl Intact, ligaments are tough, tlu knife waa dull ' tlet an ax," aald McKlttrlck. faint ly "Throw that knife away and get an ni " Hill Itcv Mr. Allen aueceeded In cutting the llgamenta, tho braro tut feror wnt carried Into a patscngor cor Mrs llenner made n tourniquet nut of her veil nnd a stick nnd controlled tho hemorrhage, then gave McKIt trick morphine to lull hla pain, anon ho was rutting ttlly. |