Charles R. Lilly, 43, stationmaster, saved M. Frances Gooding, 4, from being run over by a train, Grafton, West Virginia, May 4, 1912. Frances stepped from the station platform and stood astride a rail in front of a passenger train, which was approaching at a speed of 8 m.p.h. Lilly, who was two feet from the edge of the platform, leaped to the track and grabbed Frances with both hands. He then sprang to the platform, landing on the extreme edge. Before he could get farther away from the track, the bumper timber of the locomotive brushed against him. Neither was injured. 8516-725
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