DEEDS OF HEROISM.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 4

DEEDS OF HEROISM.

t ■■ ♦■ '.■■■••■ - "It will be the best Christmas gift--5 I have ever received," said Charles ; Bernard when he heard that the Prince of Wales was to present himat Marlborough House- with 'the bronze medal of the Order.' of • the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Young Bernard (he is only sixteen) was about to cross the railway-line , at Harwch just, as a train was ;ap- ' proachiug, when he noticed a, little i - girl" running to cross from the; opposite direction. The gateman saw. her, too, but being a cripple,, was unable 1 to. do more than shout, but the girl 3 took no heed.- • : . ' On':caine -the train, and in another "* moment it would have crushed the r . life out of the child. But Bernard "■' .dashed forward, caught the little gill up, , and almost fell clear of the lines as ; the train thundered past. ) '" ■ . ■ . ■ . */ Workmen on the railway at Wilmslow, Cheshire, were_ the other day i witnesses of a terrible tragedy, the 1 result of a woman's heroic effort to save the life of a two-year-old child. The train had only just left the > station, when the men saw the child ,- fall from a window of one of the [ carjia'ges. ■ • -Immediately afterwards the woman, evidently intent on rescuing i the child from a terrible fate, jumpi ed from the. carriage. ; But the irony of. fate, the child esj caped unhurt, but', the brave woman I was terribly. injured,. and ■* died shortt ly after her removal to hospital. She •was a Lancashire ,'woman named Mrs :... Wood, , ... -V v: - •■■.; ■.■:•., v : s - ■