TWO BABIES ON A RAILWAY LINE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 144, 21 June 1922, Page 2

TWO BABIES ON A RAILWAY LINE

Two children named Fraser had a miraculous escape from death on the 4th May on thp London and North-Western Railway at Maryport, neat Workington, Cumberland. • ' ■ While a double-engine express wae rounding- a curve the drive.i of the leading engino (Frank Elliott) was horrified to see a three-year-old child sitting on the 'left metal "and another child sending ia tho four-footway. Ho instantly applied t!ie emergeßcy ; brakes, but realised that he could not pull up tht heavy train' in .time, and the children disappeared from sight under the engine, despite tho fact that, the express v/aa pulled up in its own length. On getting down from the engine tho driver discovered one child crying, and saying, "Nasty puffer train knocked me off ike railway." ; Strange to say, the child was none Hie worse for the acoident, the engine's life guard having thrown it clear. Tho othci diild had crawled away from; the metals when tho express was a few.feet away. Passengers in the' train were much. alarm cd ar. the sudden stoppage and a' tho dense clouds oJf smoke from the engine enused by the- application of tho omorjjoncy brakes. Ho\v .the children got on to tho line i* a mystb'y, for the hedgss are too high for them to clin-.b, and their home at Graslot, a suburb of Msryport, issouiedistanne aivay. Tlioy woro taken home by an uncle little the. worse for their adventure.