A SPECTACULAR FEAT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 January 1914, Page 5

A SPECTACULAR FEAT.

For an act of heroism, rivalling as a spectacle the climax of a melodrama, and the feature of a circus, Leo Harold Nokes, of Sac City, la., has been given a bronze medal. Xokes, a High School student, 20 years of age, saved a little girl from being run over by a train, by crossing the track on a bicycle, in the face of a fast approaching locomotive, and carrying the child out of danger justin time.

The young man had ridden his wheel, on which he was an expert, to the depot on an errand, and was awaiting the arrival of the train. Just as it drew near the crossing at the south end of the depot platform, he saw children approaching on their way from school, among them a little boy and bis younger sister. The boy crossed the track in safety, hut the girl hesitated until the train was close and then started across, hut appeared to he dazed.

I It was evident to Mokes, looking ion at a distance, that the child I would not escape the locomotive unless helped. Instantly lie mounted ; his wheel and rode swiftly toward the | crossing. The crowd at the depot platform yelled a warning, believing that Nokes must have lost his head. Then the bicycle rider, with the engine |close upon him, was seen to ride directly on to the track, and without losing speed lean over and catch the child and pull it on with him to a 1 place of safety, the cow-catcher of ithe engine barely missing the wheel. | Evidently Andrew Carnegie knew what he was talking about when at the time of establishing the 5,000,000 dollar fund he made the remark: — !“Wo live in a heroic age.”—Chicago Tribune.