CHILD'S FALL FROM TRAIN
RESCUED UNINJURED FATHER'S PERILOUS ACTION HOW HE REACHED THE ENGINE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright JKeccived September 25, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, Sept. 21 As a train was crossing a high ravine Miguel Jalon helrl his little daughter up to a window so that she might behold the scenery. The wind blew the child from his grasp and she fell from the train.
The distracted father found that the communication cord was out of order so he scrambled along the roofs of the carriages and warned the engine crew. The train was pulled up a few yards short of a tunnel where Jalon would have been crushed to death. Jlescuers found that the child had bounded 50 feet down the ravine, where she was caught in i* clump of bushes. She was not injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 9
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