Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — “BROKE” SOLDIER SAVES LIFE [ARTICLE]

“BROKE” SOLDIER SAVES LIFE

Lack of Car Fare Brings Him to Rescue of Man Hurt by Train. Minneapolis.—ls Frank Brickley, private with the First Minnesota hospital corps, had had five cents Emil Drefahl, l&l Bunker street, St. Paul, would probably be dead. Drefahl was struck by a Chicago Great Western train at Wyoming street and the railway tracks. His left the shoulder. < Shortly after the accident, Private Brickley, who was walking to barracks from South St. Paul, because he did not have car fare, met Drefahl, bloody and staggering, at Luby and Concord streets. * He' applied a tourniquet' to the arm above the injury andstopped the flow of blood, probably saving the man’s life.