Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — INDIAN SAVES BIG TRAINLOAD [ARTICLE]

INDIAN SAVES BIG TRAINLOAD

■ - r ' Discovers Bridge Has Washed Away and Flags Engineer, Who . Btops In Tima Riverton, Wyo.—Passengers on a westbound Chicago and Northwestern train were Saved from certain injury and probable death by Sumner Blake, an Arapahoe Indian, when he discovered a bridge had been washed out near here and flagged the train within 100 feet of the dangerous spot, Blake was walking from Sboshonl to Riverton, using the railroad track, when he found that a flood In Muskrat creek had washed out the piling under a bridge. Knowing that the passenger train was about due, he hastily built a fire on the track. Barely bed the blaze become bright when the train appeared. The Indian leaped about on the track In front of the fire, waving his sombrero. The engineer brought the train to a stop. Grateful passengers' overwhelmed the Ipdian with expressions of gratitude and gifts, which so embarjrassed him that he hurried away in the darkness. ' J