GUARD'S PLUCKY ACTION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2126, 7 December 1920, Page 7

GUARD'S PLUCKY ACTION.

[Special to The Sun.) WANGANUI, December 7. The quick action of Guard Myers averted a tragedy at Patea last evening. A goods train from Hawera first drew into the station, and a passenger, carrying a swag, alighted somewhat unsteadily from a second-class carriage, and staggered on to the rails, just as the New Plymouth express dashed into the station. The man seemed muddled, and, though many persons yelled to warn him, he stood right in the way of the onrushing express, as if paralysed. "With great presence of mind, Guard Myers raced from the guard's van of the goods train, amidst the tensest excitement, and succeeded in reaching the man, snatching him from what appeared certain destruction. The driver of the express applied the brakes with promptitude, as soon as he saw the man on the line, but, had it not been for the prompt manner in which Guard Myers acted, nothing could have saved the stranger from mutilation.