Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1915 — Brave Deed of Fireman. [ARTICLE]

Brave Deed of Fireman.

A five-year-old girl had a narrow escape from death on the track of the Houston & Texas Central railroad at Corsicana, Tex. The child was walking along the track of the road directly in front of the switch engine. When discovered by the train men they were within a few feet of the little girl, and the whistle Mew and the child ceemed not to hear it. The fireman Stepped to • the foot board* reached around the drawhead, caught the child and threw her from the track and the engineer caught her and lifted her out of danger. When the fireifian took hold of the child the engine was within six inches of her.