Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — LITTLE GIRLS PREVENT WRECK. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE GIRLS PREVENT WRECK.

Son bonnet* Used to Flag Train Before It Reachee Burning Treatle. A freight on the Panhandle was saved a disastrous wreck near Aneka Junction by the prompt action of Edna Keener, aged 12 yearn, and Emma Tombaugh, aged 14 yenrs. The girls, while playing along the track, discovered that a trestk. over a small creek was on fire. Hearing the train coming, they ran down the track nnd with their sun bonnets flagged the train just in time to save it from going Into thp ditch. The train crew mnde up a purse for the little girls and the matter has been reported to the officials, who may remember the girls for tbelr bravery.