JUST IN TIME.
PLUCKY ACTION OF A RAILWAY MAN. A CHILD SAVED FROM DEATH. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Reoeived September 13, 9.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A railway ganger, named Muir, at Horsham, two hundred and four miles north-west of Melbourne, performed a deed of heroism while in charge of a ballast train. ' As his train was going round a curve he saw a little child standing on the line on which another train travelling at the rate of twenty miles an hour was approaching. When the engine of the advancing trainwas within fifty yards of the child, Muir jumped from his train, and managed to pick up the child and reach a place of safety before the passenger train passed over the sput.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1909, Page 7
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125JUST IN TIME. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1909, Page 7
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