Newport daily independent., 1902-09-16

A woman rescued DN DIdNe llaiiu0 sat on the ground just struggling back 10 consciousness. Charlotte dropped on her knees beside her and looked closely into her face.
 "Where is Dick?9 she demanded, sharply. Where is he?"
 Mrs. Holcombe took the girls hands in a convulsiye grasp.
 "Isn't he here?" she asked, wildly. q do not know. This is the first l have known anything. Charlotte, he cannot be in there! Oh, Dick, my boy, my boy7
 Still on her knees, Charlotte leaned forward and peered with a dreadful fascination at the burning car. From one end of it a woman's hand and arm stuck rigidly up from the wreckage, the body crushed and lost to sight beneath heavy timbers and iron. The fickering light played on it, showing chaos behind and around.
 "Charlottep' Mrs. Holcombe pressed the girl close to her, so that her fine gray hair lay against Char lotte's brown locks. She was quiyer- ing violently, this stately old lady who seemed ever to live in an unruf- fled calm. Once I was unkind to you. God Is punishing me for that Char lotte forgive me, and help me find my boyp'
 'He isn't i'll there! He can't be in there" Charlotte chung to her for a moment, and broke away to to run up and down the length of the car again, peering into every crack and space. She even crept cautiously over the wreckage, shuddering at the sound of faint groans beneath, until the heat of the flames at the far end drove her back again, frantic with appre- hension.
 A half-insane idea came to her that the man who had helped her out could find him. He was hurt, but he had known how to save himself and her; surely he would help find Dick. She flew back toward the car she had left, peering into the faces of the excit- ed men who were tearing at the wreckage to rescue those beneath. She noticed vaguely that the flames had made great headway on that car since she had left it. There was only quarter of it's length now where men could work, and the number of rescuers was pitifully small in com parison with those who moaned and shrieked for help.
 Through the half darkness Char lotte stumbled on sobbing now as she looked into face after face and failed to find the stranger who had helped her through
 At the end of the burning car big man worked like a demon grasping hot timbers with his bare hands and l prying up great weights with the strength of men and angels. There were two men helping him and now and then they shot look of wonder ing pity at his face. His hands were black with soot and bleeding, his clothes were torn, and in the yellow lights of the flames his face showed haggard and set. Some poor crea- ture below, hot with the approaching fire and half-crushed cried out with renewed vigor as blessed relief came so near The big man bent over the opening his own hands had made.
 "Charlottew he called, anxiously "Charlottep
 "Oh, Dickw
 Not from the horror beneath, but from the good, firm ground beside him, Charlotte's fingers clutched at his arm The other men looked at each other and turned their heads, as they bent down and carefully lift ed half dead woman from the hor- TOT which had hemmed her in.
 Charlotte did not see them. Her face was buried in Dicks shoulder,  and he held her close to him, regard 1 less of his lacerated hands.