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•little Girl Has I Some of Tourists fc;a Narrow Escape Have New Quartersfto’S^lThe prompt action of engineer^ Railroad employes the last few. jDonovan ami Fireman Charles Shcr-jdays have noticed that tire floating 'man Friday morning- no doubt saved population, who ride freight trainsthe life of a small girl living in tire cast part of town near the Milwaukee tracks. * - . ■Just about the arrival time of Xo. 13 extra east. Lee. a sheep train, left Perry*. There were four girls playing and picking up coal alonginstead of passenger trains to -get through the country, have changedu.x press Company, was Thursday looking after lev.-, business matters. Mr.—Cnmpbeil advises that the 1’. F. K. company ur,- jc making arrangements for ;i Wg|V fruit business this; season. In an-j*kidition to the 20.d0y:p. F. F. rc-fri-|lr their locations. from.: box cars to re- genuor cars of : their own. they 5Kir:gerators. Formerly all the ho- have already rented three thousandbo?, or tramps or tourists, by which ever name they, are known, rode in box cars, either in the daythe tracks. Whe-tt the sheep trainpj,ne or when sleeping .but of late passed three of them got away from1,a great many men .have been slecp-the tracks but the third seeming to | try to show her bravery stayed be-! tween the cast and west bound tracks and stepped onto the, west bound track just as No. 3 rounded the curve. Brakeman MU ness, who was braking ahead on the sheep! train ran back over the . train' mg to attract the attention of :girl to the coming passenger train, iat the- samo time giving No: 3 si • nals to stop. . Engineer Donovan grasped the situation at once and stopped his train in time to avoid strikin:ing on top of refrigerator or fruit The glare of the hot sun up-ears.additional cars -from eastern lines and will rent more- as soon as they can secure them, to take care of g the busiess. No effort is siared toJ* keep the empty refrigerators mov-Kro••“-soiect tor inesr 11 Rapids has. bethoep,-ire equipped with ice bunkers j(lnyS in j^c.n v-_try'- one end and when the hatches arej ^!fon=o FId-r - lh- in a certain position, they afford a ’ h'~-mg west bound wizlv as .much sjeed as the loads move! east. The Mil-l^rc-ntly does not .affect them ^U,.aokoo company is promisd their they sleep along thru the day u«e.Lharc. of the huyiness.Tiic refrigerator ears which theyj Cl;u:n Adjuster Webb of Cedar c select for their sleeping quarters ^ ]y^n _spendiniC a le,v a!‘has returned to Soo 1 City after having spent Ills vacation,n Perry, p, _____ . -..... s return- Hthe train is in m°ucn. x le scai * ^ f*rom t]ie hospital in Des Moines '.scity of employment throug .out t ic-. ^ is siowly recovering from the 1country has been the cause ot a j tl Avhtch 'the child. The unusual „reat many unemployed'men trav-!in- protection to the men so they will ^ horno or n[s pru.emH 5: 51S* »lt;* roll off the top of the car when-j^ F_ Av_ E]der baa:stop at Sixth' street caused some 'commotion and people who questioned the child after the- train! had pass-elingover the country, the tramc cast bound seemingly being on a par with the-traffic west bound. Trainwasthere several weeks ago.performedtt-fed said she did not seem to realize and engine men do not'interfere nowher danger at all and boastingly remarked that she was not afraid of• * - • * » *be engine.with passengers they have aboard •the tops of their trains.»- -T »___1__Iqpht nr mm
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Perry Daily Chief
Perry, Iowa, US
Sat, Jul 23, 1921
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