Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — Remarkable Rescue. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Rescue.

As the noon train from Sydney was running at the rate of about 25 miles an hour, the other day, between Scarborough and Bulll, N. S. W., the driver noticed a child of about four years of age playing between the rails some distance ahead. The whistle was sounded and the brakes applied, but the child took no notice, other than to sit up and watch admiringly the approaching train. It was plain to the driver that the train could not be stopped before the child was run over, but the whistle and commotion at-' traded the attention of a miner, who happened to come in view on the roadway beside the railway line dose to where the child was seated. He jumped the fence and In his excitement stumbled and fell, but was up again instantly, and, leaping in front of the engine, grasped the child and rolled over with It clear of the rails, having very narrowly escaped being killed himself.