People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — AN AGED HERO. [ARTICLE]

AN AGED HERO.

He Rescues Two Children at the Cost of His Own lase. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug - . 27. —Henry Bowman, a veteran gray-bearded flagman where the system of railway tracks pass under the bi«- Virginia avenue viaduct, lost his life Friday in a heroic effort to save the lives of several small children at play on the tracks. Bowman was 73 years old and was minus one hand, lost in a railroad accident years ago, after which he was given the station at the viaduct. Bowman rushed in front of the engine and grabbed up two little boys in his arms and tossed them off to one side, but fell back in front of a Lake Erie & Western engine. The cowcatcher struck him in the back and both feet were ground off. He lived an- hour after being taken to the hospital.