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Rachel A .Auetin ~
Jacksonville ‚ Florida .		~


‘EIn l886when the present Atlantic Ooaet Line Halirold

was called the S~F~W~ and I was coming from Savannah to Florida, some tranips intent upon robbery had removed spikee from the bridge and just as the alarm was givon and the~train about to he thrown from the track, I raised the window and jumped to eafety. I then walked back two miles to report it. More.. than: 70 were killed who might have been saved had they jumped as Idid. As a result, the S~F. and L gave me a free pass for life with which I rode all over the United States and once into Canad,a.“ He proudly displays this pass and states that he would like to travel over the United States again but that the school keep2 him too c1ose~

	~d	nI had been very sick but took no medicine; my wife went out to visit Sister Nancy-S shortly afterwards I heard what sounded like walking, and. ‘in my imagination saw death entering, push the door open and draw back to leap on nie; I jumped through the window, my shirt hung, but I pulled it out. Mr. Hodges, a Baptist preacher was hoeing in his garden i~extdoÖr‘~‘~okedat me ath laughed. Awoman yelled ‘there goes Reverend. Andrewe, ~ and. death is on im‘ I said ‘no he isn‘ t on me but he‘edown there.‘ Pretty soon news caine that Reverend Hodges had dropped dead. Death had comè for someone and would ‚ ~‘iot leave without them. I was weak and. he tried me first. Rev— erend Hodges wasn‘t looking, so he slipped up on him.“