- Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the thieves escape on a hand car. With her feet still bound by wire, Helen endeavors to pursue on foot, but stumbles and falls across the rails of the track of an oncoming train. Helen frees herself, breaks a circuit so that a semaphore fifty yards away flashes a warning, and the engineer brings the train to a stop less than three feet in front of Helen. Word is sent to a nearby switch tower, the handcar is derailed, and the desperadoes making their escape are thrown down an embankment, only to find themselves with Helen herself to deal with until help arrives.—Anonymous
- The noise of men rifling the safe in the telegraph office awakens Helen, who lives in the adjoining room. Knowing the men to be after the money entrusted to her care by Paymaster Wilkens. Helm rushes into the office and holds them up with her pistol. The thieves grapple with the girl and overpower her. During the struggle, Helen's revolver is discharged. Before help can arrive, the girl is bound by the thieves who take the money from the safe and flee on a hand car. Struggling to her feet, Helen endeavors to pursue them. She gets as tar as the railroad track when she stumbles and falls across the rails. The noise of the oncoming train warns the girl of her terrible peril. The sight of the bonding wires connecting the ends of the tails gives her an inspiration. With a desperate effort, Helen tears the wires loose with her feet, thus breaking the circuit. This causes a semaphore, fifty yards away, to automatically hash out its warning. The engineer of the train sets the signal and brings his engine to a stop less than three feet from Helen. The girl is freed. As the result of her story, word is sent to the man in charge of a nearby switch tower. Throwing a lever over, the towerman derails the handcar on which the desperadoes are making their escape, throwing them down an embankment. Helen later corners the leader of the men and engages him in a furious battle. The girl is being badly battered when help arrives. The crook is captured and shortly afterwards his confederates are rounded up.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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