BOY'S HERROIC ATTEMPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12609, 25 June 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOY'S HERROIC ATTEMPT.

! FUTILE EFFORT TO ' SAVE fffß W.vH Two small ; boys . irenidLi^in- New Tfork, b; f name Strelot and Gilday,'evinced a. desrir i . Ito travel, and so one day in;. Ma- the};'., . boarded * .freight train bound for Pongbv . keepsie. i 3)v k .L"' ,^'3',= ,s'''fi!.^lfe , Sl Arrived ; at tfaeir destination ;. t uey wend" ss ; -, taken in • hind ,by tin; police and advised; ■ '. to go home, but trader no circumstances W-/;'■■■ ride on freight trains. .-- -, - './ --1 ■* |f| ;" We rode up all at i".'they said, w joA - 1 I we're 'not-going to walk back while a rail-' . road runs' our way.'" \'. ,; .; ■■ -V; ■ T';x[ ,'v" \ $?So, when a freight tlrair* lame along ' they • [found a refrigerator csir with a broad, Sat ; top, 1 and made themselves comfortable: They $ had selected the train Itnowd as the Albany ' 'A ! local, made up oMpaitsenoir. coaches ! and ■ £•; I milk can.-:-; ; J.;v:t'/-:'-v3t;':'. ■ : -" j:-Everything went wisll until tomewhe#t> ! | along : the line a low bridge struck t'esft. [ Gilday 'was a© badly hiart that he was renI dered ?£. unco'usc i oils, <; and .-.V:/ Strelet ) '/. Wat I knocked completely ,• oS: - the top -of i the '«*S?| and just saved himself : from falling^,he-'i! v ;j tween that and the cat* behind. As he fell one of his hands strucit aj»ajnst a round of >'J : a ladder, up which: he pulled himself. again 3js to the top of the car. ' "<. \ ' ".-. , ' >; ':, ?! There I? found Gi'lday & where he had! been knocked down,".'•! Strelet •: said at the ' ;-'. hospital. "He had been hit on the.head, } 0\ but I bandaged up the '; wound as 'well aitSfe I could. He was almost over the"' e'ge■• * of the car when I found him, but I draped him back to .'■: the midaie, anil held' Aire! .' ; ' there until we•reacbidlth©:cit ; r: i.^\**S "Sometimes I thought I wouldn't be able to, hold out any longer. T was losing ** strength myself, bnfr I: knew 1 that if I 'let '';•:, go •» he .vould ? be ? thrown off at the' first" $ i curve. I'm only fourteen, you know, but.. ■:"•'.'"! he's a year younger, aid ,1 felt as if it was ■up.?, to >■'me •; anyhow •■ to do " ? everything 14 I^M•;"Well, we finally got into the ' yards, 1 and.',:£ I called to the. trainmen and they-took na'" V off the.top of -the cm and sent'for an ambu- %- lance;-,. 1 remember seeing Gildav lifted? -. into the waggon, and 'then they took me up, but I don't remember aaylhintr after that. They tell me that Gilday died after ; they • '•-■; got him to the hospital, but I didn't mean §§ to have him killed by ■ being thrown ■ from r| the'top of that car."