DYING MAN'S HEROISM.
! SIGNALMAN'S >LAST 'EFFORT TO' ■' • ;WEIIT i' \ '.'•-■i-vn'.iw . .January;i2o,'i'V A Great Northern Railway- signalman, f Ed- • .ward: Woods, who. was. taken : suddenly ill and died while on duty at Peterborough, by a last effort, as he was losing consciousness, put all his signals ,at danger, and thus averted a disaster.../: ' Woods, who was . fifty-two. years of age, went on duty in his .Usualyhealth at 10 p.m. on Friday on Saturday he was •s'lwkoii to\by, a .shunter,. At '4.30 a.m. a train.,.was"hejd :: iip'outside the box by tho signalLbeirig.'set' at:,danger. Going into the box to. learn- why the signalarm did not' drop, the shunter'found Woods dead on tho floor. His'; book showed that he had passed through'a. train at 3.32 a.m. He must have been ~taken ill, immediately aftonvards and: dropped'to 'thoffloor as sooii 'as.he had pu^^Vius• sig'nalsVatydanger. At tho inquest tho doctors; who made a post-morteiiii.i'ojiaminatiou rbpQrteil;; : . : tliat all tho organs' jvero ; healthy, -.'i'liey/could. only suggest thaV death,\was ''due./tpVa fainting lit. Tho -jury returned a verdict accomingly. ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 10
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168DYING MAN'S HEROISM. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 10
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