King Alfonso's Courage.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 April 1914, Page 8

King Alfonso's Courage.

King Alfonso has gained additional popularity iii consequence -of his courageous attempt to succour a iittle ,girl who was the victim oj a railway accident while the King was travelling from Cadi/, to .Madrid. A woman who was in charge of the station at Utrern evidently forgot that the special train conveying King Alfonso was expected, and she allowed her two .simall. daughters to play on the railway line as was their custom when no trains were due. One of the children eventually lavdown on the ballast and went to sleep, and the driver of the royal train did not see her in time to pull up before the engine struck her, inflicting a serious wound on the head and knocking her off the line. King Alfonso, who was sitting at the window of his saloon carriage, saw the child throv. n .alongside the line, and he immediately jumped through the window without waiting for the train to stop. The train proceeded 60 yards before it halted, and when the alarmed members of his Majesty's suite rushed back they found King so standing beside the line with the little girl in his arms trying, to staunch the flow of blood. The child was afterwards conveyed to hospital by the King's train.