San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-23
GRASS GIRL
SPEEDING TO
HOME AND
FRIENDS
BIunder Saves Child From
Injury When Train
Is Wrecked. =

Jimmie English San An
tonio's sweetheart, is speed
ing across Texas, homeward
bound, still guarded by that
same Providence that pluck
ed her from the valley Of the shadow
and made her an heir of the future.
Coming home to San Antonio, where
city's love had made her health
and happiness possible, Jimmie was
saved from a train wreck by the ap-
parent blunder of a railroad conduc-
tor.
"There is divinity that shapes
our ends.
Rough-hew them as we WILL" Shak-
espeare wrote.
And the little Grass Girl from San
Antonio, smiling as she listens to the
hum Of the singing rails that lead
to home, Thanksgiving paean in her
heart, does not know of the narrow
escape she had. But those who know
and love her think of the poets words
and wonder.
20 INJURED
For Jimmie English is alive and
well, all through a blunder that no
one understands.
While the companions who shared
her. journey from St, Louis, 20 of
them, are in Marshall, Texas, hos
pitfalls, as a result of the head-on col
lision between her train and another
passenger flyer just out of Marshall,
Sunday night.
Jimmie was put off the train at
Texarkana through misunderstand-
ing about her transportation. The
conductor expected another ticket to
await her .there-one to carry her
across Texas to San Antonio.
No one gave it to him. A Pullman
conductor was searching through the
train for Jimmie with the ticket.
LEAVE JIMMIE.
Jimmie was on the platform with
the train conductor, looking for it.
And, when time came for the train
to move on-the ticket still inbound
the conductor left her there with the
Salvation Army, while the train sped
on, Jimmie's ticket in the Pullman
conductors pocket.
There were frantic kilograms up
and down the I-G. N. when the train
arrived in Texarkana, inquiring about
the regularity of the transportation.
But before the messages reached
San Antonio. little Jimmie was help
ed off the train at Texarkana, where
the Salvation Army Immediately got
in touch with The San Antonio Light.
And ten seconds after their tele-
gram arrived in San Antonio The
Light wired the money for her trans
portation.
Little Jimmie must have the best
of everything" said the telegram that
accompanied the money. Buy it for
her and see that she gets everything
she wants on the next train for San
Antonio"
GOES AFTER HER.
However that was what the rail-
road wanted too.
For at the same time The Light
was notified of the difficulty, the
I-G. N. railroad officials at Pales.
tine, the general offices of the road,
heard what had happened.
Jimmie English is the guest Of this
railroad" said the general passenger
agent Of the line, show in the world
did that happen?"
But he wasted no time in inquiries.
Instead he jumped on the train that
was then in the station and started
for Texarkana himself.
Terrible mistake. Jimmie English
is the guest of the I-G. N. and the
general passenger agent himself is
coming after her to take her to San
Antonio" was the telegram sent to
Texarkana.
And in the meantime the train that
Jimmie left, speeding on its way to
San Antonio, collided head-on with an
other passenger train at Marshall,
Texas. Twenty persons were slightly
injured. Engineer Link, Gray, Of the
train Jimmie had been riding, was
most seriously injured. He was hurt
when he leaped from his engine cab
just before the two trains collided.
Three COOKS on one of the diners were
scalded. The Sunshine Special, two
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