Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-10-11


instant a strong hand caught her
arm.
"Quiet! Wait and see what"
The words were lost in a crash
ing sound. The door in front Of
her flew open, and she saw some
thing crushing forward with re-
sistless power. Horrible cries
mingled with the roaring of ma
chinery, and then blow on the
head stunned her, and she lost all
consciousness.
She revived to find herself lying
on the ground, in the clear bright
moonlight, at some few feet from
the railroad track. She tried to
raise, but sharp pain in her arm
and side prevented her, and she saw
that she was covered with blood.
She could see the piled ruins of the
cars, and people with heavy burdens
passing to and fro. She could hear
groans and screams, the wailing of
searchers, and the directions Of
clear, authoritative voices; but she
could not move, and did not know
how to speak or to whom. At last
one group of the men, who were
raising the dead and wounded from
the ground, approached her. An
old gentleman bent over her.
"Are you hurt?" he asked, in
grave tone, that the forced calmness
made almost stern.
81 am afraid so. ! cannot move"
"Who was with yOup"
III was alone, sir. What is the
matterp"
"A collision. All! here comes
our young doctor. Another patient
for you, my friend"
miss Howell Thank God, you
are not dead"
DR.. Holman bent over Nettie as
he spoke, and she saw that his left
arm was in sling, made of q strip
of her shawl.
1--WE were obliged to rifle bags
and baskets, and search for linen
handkerchiefs, or anything else
useful, we could find," he said, no.
ticing her eyes; fortunately l had
my instruments in the baggage car
which escaped injury"
While he was speaking, he knelt
beside her and had wiped the blood
from her face, and dressed deep
cash in her forehead, while the old
gentleman and his companions
were looking further for their mel
ancholy burdens. As DR.. Holman
finished his task, he said:
"Where else are you hurt?"
my arm, think, and side"
"You were thrown from the
broken side of the car by the crash
of the locomotive, before l could
catch you, and | had to spring out
for my life"
He raised her arm as he spoke,
and, with sharp cry Of pain, she
tainted again.
1t was a different scene upon
which her next moment of con-
seriousness found her. She was ly-
ing on a small bed, in little room,
whose low ceilings and narrow walls
gave her an odd, stifed feeling; but
her eyes rested first on a small fig
ure beside her, and she was aston
ished to hear her own weak voice,
when she said "mother!"
"Are you awake, Nettiep"
why, mother, how came you
here ?-and where am Ip"
"You are in the house Of a farm
er, who has given up all his rooms
to the wounded from the railroad
accident. You remember that,
Nettie?"
Eyes; but how did get here?-
and how did you get here?"
ave were telegraphed the next
morning, and | found you here
when | came. You had dislocated
your shoulder and broken your arm
and had raging fever. I have
been here for ten days"
"And DR.. HolmanP"
HE has been a miracle! He was
wounded himself, broke his left
arm in springing from the cars,
but he was everywhere from the
first. All speak in the warmest
terms of his care and skill; and /
should surely be the first, for | be-
lieve, under Providence, ! owe my
child's life to his skill and atten-
ton"
Nettie saw the large tears in her
mothers eyes; but she was too
weak to do more than smile at her
caress, and then fall asleep, thank
ing God for her deliverance from
this great danger. She was not