FATHER AND CHILD.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7214, 27 November 1888, Page 5

FATHER AND CHILD.

▲ MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. (jtbok our oohbbspondbjst.] (Bt Tkmqiujph «k>m thb Blum.) ALBURY, November 19. About ten minutes after the express train for Melbourne had left the Wodonga •tatioa on Friday morning, a gentleman carrying a little girl was seen coining up the railway line. On being interviewed he stated hie name waa Girdwood, and that, with his wife and three children, he was on hie way to Melbourne from Newcastle. He further stated that the express had left Wodonga half a mile behind when he saw toe door of the carriage on which his daughter, aged three or four, was leaning to look out, open, and the child fall out. Althongh the express was going at full •peed, he did not hesitate, but jumped out after her, miraculously escaping with a slight cut on the arm and knee. The child had luckily fallen on a grassy slope, but when the father picked her up she was partly insensible, though to all appearance no bones were broken or any serious injury inflicted. MrGirdwoud telegraphed to Wangaratta for a doctor to meet him there, avud went on by the ordinary train with hia daughter. Mrs Girdwood of course remained in the train, and most have been greatly distressed till she knew the fate of her husband and child.