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Show SAVED FROM WRECK. BY RARE PRESENCE OF MIND Chicago, July 19. Rare presence of mind was displayed yesterday when A. O. NclKon, driving In an automobile au-tomobile with Miss Ellen Smakel, seized his companion In his arms and leaped to safely on the pilot of a train that threatened them with death. The incident occurred at Roselle, 111 , where the wagon road crosses the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. f'aitl track. The couple were driving toward Chicago, and as they were on the tracks, a defect In mechanism mechan-ism abruptly stalled thy car. A freight train was rush toward them. The engineer applied the brakes, but the train maintained lt velocity and it was alwut to crush the automobile and Its occupants. Miss Smakel's only injury was the nervous shock. |