Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-13
ETT|E ADKINS
 WEARS MEDAL
 IF \ HEROINE
Well Known Teacher of EloCu- ton Wins Praise and Recog- hilton From the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

DoubeIess very few people in Bisbee know that we have a. real heroine in the person of Miss Ettie Adkins, Miss Adkins is teacher of elocution and physical culture. She is well known here and elsewhere, having completed her work in one of the leading schools of Philadelphia. She wears a large gold medal and persons not knowing her, would naturally suppose it was awarded for excellency in her art
 But this is not so. On closer obser. vation the medal bears this inscrip
 tiop: For Bravery. May 2I, 1893, Presented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 12S, De Soto, Missouri" The following is the story in part taken from a press notice at the time of the wreck:
 .sIt was the second night out on the road and the train was dashing along the side of great mountain as If trying to escape from the storm which was brewing. when suddenly there was terrible jar backward, then forward, and then the train stop ped short. Some one cried, 'Ohi it's a wreck In few minutes the pass epgers all rushed to the front, and sure enough the engine was a mass of debris Some one met the ladies and told them to go back, the fireman was crushed to a jelly. and the en- gineer badly scalded. It was raining hard and they said it would be two hours before a doctor could get there. Miss Adkins went back to the coach and sat there few minutes, then she proposed to some of the older ladies that they offer their services to as- sist the wounded. One said it was no place for ladies. Another that there were enough men to do everything necessary, and the third was an in valid and could not stand the excite ment. But when the girl from Texas asked if there would be any impro- priety in her going, she was told no, to go on, and she went-through the coaches and into the dimly lighted baggage car passed our heroine The engineer lay on a cot great drops of cold sweat stood on his brow. and his teeth clenched and gritted to keep hack the grosa's. The car was full of men doing nothing for him. But she forgot she was timid and walked up to tho. cot and said. They told me you were badly hurt and I've come to see if there Is anything can do for you. The haggageman was standing by and exclaimed: My God! there is plenty te do, but nothing to do it with That was enough, she hurried back and found oil and starch among the pas
 seneers. and her dainty night dress she gave to the baggageman to tear into strips. The men stood back and Al.. FrsaV al overx the cot she whispered: You woss let the men say anything oui of the way, will your And if an angel of light had suddenly shown in theil midst they could not have shown more veneration. But she forgot them and while the rain poured down and the lightning played all around the dirty floor, few feet away lay the dead fireman. The brave little woman worked on, and the tender fingers never faltered as great chunks of flesh feil of with the clothing. Once she said the men were talking too loud and she asked the man who was sas gistfug her to ask them to stop. Al
 wess. silent them. Only at intervals g one legged man sat on a trunk and evidently wanted to pay a tribute tf woman, but did not know how to dc SO, kept saying. what is home without a motherg Of course the engineel wanted to pay her. but she would no
 mention such thing, but told hin all she wanted was for him to get vel and tell his wife she had the bravesf husband in the world Then he heit out his only we'll hand and asked hei Do stay until the doctor came. Shs told me She felt awfully trembly wher the great dignifed doctor walked in But he looked at the wounds and ask ed who had dressed them, and said
 Well, there was no use to send fol me. couldn't have done better job. She Is one ot kind that can't D, spoiled, or she would have been Everybody on board called her {