Cook County IL Archives News.....Gave Life To Save Train August 7, 1904
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Morning Oregonian August 7, 1904
Chicago,Aug.6- James Jensen, a farmer boy aged 18 year, was killed through his 
efforts to save a Chicago,Milwaukie and St.Paul pasenger train from 
destruction near Corliss,Ill. Whie the youth and his brother were crossing the 
track with a steam thresher, the machine became stalled.
When the Milwaukie Chicago passenger train came on, James ran up the track 
waving his straw hat, and so determined was he that he stood on the track, in 
the glare of the headligth, until he was borne down by th elocomotive and 
crushed to death. The engineer saw him in time to slackensoeed, and though the 
locomotive crashed into the thresher, the train escaped a wreck.

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