Frances Spanke, 14, schoolgirl, died attempting to save Marie R. Oberle, 10, from being run over by a train, Clarksville, Arkansas, May 7, 1914. As the girls were crossing a railroad bridge, a passenger train approached behind them at a speed of 25 m.p.h. While running on a trestle at the end of the bridge, Marie fell to her knees between the rails when the locomotive was but 130 feet from her. Frances was six feet in front of her, three feet from the end of the trestle. She turned and ran to Marie and grasped her outstretched hands. At that instant the locomotive struck the girls and knocked them from the track. Frances received injuries from which she died five hours later. Marie received severe injuries, but she recovered in six weeks. 13025-967
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