A CLOSE CALL.
SAVES EXPRESS FROM DANGER
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] £ United Press Assooiatiok,2
(Received 12.35 p.m.) New York, June 23
At '"Hot 'Springs; : at Kansas, Miss Bertha Kay, a farmer's daughter, seeing 'a bridge; burning on the Iron mountain railway, frantically ran along the track, waving her sunbonnet, and succeeded, in stopping the express, which, otherwise, would have failed through the flaming bridge into the deep river beneath. 1 ' I ',' The passengers presented Miss Kay with £2O before the train proceeded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 6
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81A CLOSE CALL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 6
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