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Show WOMAN'S PRESENCE OF MIND SAVES TRAIN FROM WRECK Portland, May 19. The presence of mind of Mrs. Peter Toft, wife of a rancher living near Echo yesterday yester-day saved a freight train from being wrecked.. A break in the furnish ditch had carried away a small portion por-tion of the track. ' The break and the washout was discovered by Mra. Toft just as an extra freight tnln was approaching. Grabbing up a piece of cloth, the woman rushed upon up-on the track and signalled so frantically fran-tically that the engineer brought the train to a halt |