Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — DOG STOPS A TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

DOG STOPS A TRAIN.

After Saving a Baby's Life He Modestly Take* to the Woods. Train No. 20 on the Indianapolis and Vincennes, In charge of Conductor F. W. Russe, of Indianapolis, was tearing along toward Indianapolis the ether evening fifty miles an hour. The train was loaded with passengers and was behind time. East of Edwardsport Engineer Dorsey saw on the track far ahead a dog that was jumping about and acting in a peculiar manner. The dog’s actions looked suspicious, and, as a measure of caution, Dorsey shut off the steam, so as to have his Lain under control. When the train reached a nearer point the dog stood and barked at it, aud then, with a yelp, started for the woods. Tnr-n it was that Dorsey saw that there was something red between the rails, and lie threw on the emergency brakes and opened the sandbox. The train came to a standstill within ten feet of a pretty, flaxen-haired baby in a red'frock. The child was about two years old and had been playing with the dog. The train crew ran forward and Baggageman Franklin picked up the child, which laughed and crowed and patted his face in glee. About 1,800 yards distant was a farmhouse and toward it Fianiilin started with the baby, to meet a man running toward him like an insaneperson. It was the child’s father, who had missed the baby just as the train stopped, and supposed that the little one had been killed. How it got so far away from home and Into such a dangerous place no one could understand. The passengers were considerably jolted by the sudden stopping of the train, but no one was hurt, and when they learned the cause of it they clustered about Engineer Dorsey and congratulated him on his caution.—lndiana[xdis News.