SAVED FROM DEATH.
A DEED OF HEROISM
PLUCKY ACTION OF A RAIL WAY GANGER.
Received September 13, 9.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. A railway ganger, named Muir, at Horsham, two hundred and four miles north-west of Melbourne, performed a deed of heroism while in charge of a ballast train. As his train was going round a curve he saw a little child standing on the line on which another train travelling at the rate of twenty miles an hour was approaching. When the engine of the advancing train was within 750 yards of the child Muir jumped from his train, and managed to pick up the child and reach a place of safety be • fore the passenger train passed over the spot.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9594, 14 September 1909, Page 5
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122SAVED FROM DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9594, 14 September 1909, Page 5
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