Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — A Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Narrow Escape.

An exciting scene was witnessed near ' Beckenham, England, the other day. On a railroad crossing between the latter place and Croydon some boys were crossing into a field when one of them got his boot fixed in one of the points, and could not extricate it. The quarter to 4 train had just left Beckenham Junction, and the other lads seeing the peril of their companion, shouted and screamed, but were unable to render any help. Their cries attracted the attention of a publican named Davis, who was driving past at the time. Bering the danger of the boy he ran to the spot, and the boy’s boot being a laced one Mr. Davis ripped it up with a knife, and thus released the foot of the lad, who had fainted and fallen on the line. He instantly dragged him on one side, but in doing so he was caught by the buffer of the engine, which now rushed by, and sustained a severe contusion of the head, but otherwise miraculously escaped serious injury.