Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 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 blew and the child teemed not to hear it The fireman stepped to the foot board, reached abound the drawhead, caught the child and threw her from the track and the engineer caught her abd lifted her out of danger. When the fireman took hold of the child the engine was within six inches of her.