Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1912 — SNATCHED BABY FROM DEATH [ARTICLE]

SNATCHED BABY FROM DEATH

**. ~ _ One More Locomotive Fireman Who Proved Himself Equal to Emergency When Called Upon. Ed. Templeton, a fireman on the local train, with the assistance of Engineer L. M. Woodworth, made a sensational rescue of a little girl last evening, says a dispatch from Hepner, Ore. ' - ■■ .' Just after leaving lone the engineer saw far ahead in the middle of the track a baby complacently watching the approaching train, not realizing that its life was in danger. Woodworth applied the emergency brakes and shouted to Templeton. It was impossible, however, to bring the train to a stop before reaching the little girl. Templeton, seeing this, climbed out on the pilot, and just as the train swept up to the child he reached down and snatched her from death’s path to a place of safety on the pilot beside him. A few seconds later the engineer brought the train to a stop. The child’s name was not ascertained and its mother probably does not know how near to death it was.