Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — ACTOR HERO IN REAL LIFE [ARTICLE]

ACTOR HERO IN REAL LIFE

Slaps on Brakes and Saves Sixty-Four From Railroad Accident. Danville, 111., Jan. 15. —Arthur Hill, an actor, saved from death sixty-four persons. By applying the brakes he prevented a Wabash railroad coach from leaving the tracks and saved it from collision with a freight train. The train was on top of a grade when a drawbar broke and the coach started down. It traveled 200 yarSs before Hill stopped it. May Both and a Miss Hudson jumped. Doroihy Hutchinson remained on the coach and was thrown against a telegraph pole and was injured about the shoulders. Miss Poth had an elbow dislocated and Miss Hudson suffered a sprained ankle.