GIRL’S SPLENDID ACTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 7

GIRL’S SPLENDID ACTION.

STOPS AN EXPRESS TRAIN.

TERRIBLE DISASTER PREVENTED

Pm As»>ciation.—Tsteirraoh-—Copynghl Rtfcivcd June 24th 12.35 p.m. NEW YORK, June 23.

At the Rot Springs, Arkansas, Bertha Eav. a farmer's daughter, fe-ing a bridge burning on the Iron Mountain Railway, frantically ran along the track waving her sunbonnet and succeeded in stopping the express, which otherwise would nave fallen through the flaming bridge in a deep river beneath. The passengers presented Miss Kay with £2O before the train proceeded.