Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1910 — Thrilling Rescue. [ARTICLE]

Thrilling Rescue.

A thrilling rescue on the line at Cambers, Northumberland, occurred recently. Quite unconscious, or careless of the approach of a goods train, a child wandered on to the NorthEastern Railway and walked on to the permanent way. The engine driver tried to stop the train before it should reach the little one, but found the weight of the heavily burdened wagons too great for anything but a gradual pulling up. It seemed as if the child’s fate was sealed, when the fireman, Coombes, rushed along the footplate, climbed onto a buffer of the engine, and swiftly hooked up the child with his legs when the train reached the spot. Taking the child unscathed in his arms, Coombes then climbed back along the footplate to safety.