TRAIN SAVED BY BOY
serious Disaster averted. A seventecn-ycar-old American boy named Glen Cline crawled from his sick-bed at Pomeroy, Ohio, lately and saved an express train filled with pas sengers from almost certain disaster. Lying in his bed, he heard a loud roar from the railway, which passes not far from his home. Convinced that a high enbankment had collapsed, burying tho permanent way under tons of debris, the boy seized a lantern and hurried to the scene, where he found his fears were only too true. Then, knowing that the express train was about due, he rushed to the nearest curve, where he stood swinging his lantern until the driver of the approaching express, seeing the faint light, applied his brakes in the nick of time, and brought the train to a standstill within a few yards of the spot where the track had gone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 9
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