People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — A BRAVE FIREMEN. [ARTICLE]

A BRAVE FIREMEN.

He Leaps from His Engine Into a River and Saves a Little Girl. Philadelphia, April s.— Fireman John Mellick of the Jersey Central road made a daring rescue of 8-year-old Lena Blaise Tuesday. The child stood midway on the trestle over the Lackawanna river as the train approached. VVheu the engine whistled the little one in her fright fell into the river SO feet below. Mellick leaped from liis engine into the water and saved the child. When they reached the shore the passengers cheered the brave fireman and gave him a purse of SB2.