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    1. [PA-PITTSBURGH] Mrs. MARSHALL rescued by Dr. HAMMA Oct. 31, 1913 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. Mrs. J. W. MARSHALL of Pittsburgh was rescued from death under the wheels of a passenger train by Dr. J. A. HAMMA Monday morning. About 2,000 people were assembled at the Pennsylvania Station in Carnegie to see off the Rev. M. H. LYON, the evangelist who had closed a series of meetings in the town. The assemblage was singing a hymn just before the train arrived. To their consternation they saw a woman push her way through the crowd and start across the tracks. While the lookers-on turned away their heads, feeling that the train, a few feet away, would crush the woman who had stumbled and fallen, Dr. HAMMA ran onto the track, picked Mrs. MARSHALL up and threw her to safety. He himself escaped the train by a second. Dr. J. A. HAMMA is known in McDonald, having been a practicing physician here about fifteen years ago.

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