Herbert Gayle Bryan saved Thelma E. Bruce from being killed by a train, Oakley, Ohio, October 4, 1926. Thelma, 5, was standing on a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of 45 m.p.h. Bryan, 27, toolmaker, ran toward her, stepped onto the track with one foot, and pulled her toward him as he stepped from the track. The train was 35 feet from him when he took hold of her, and it passed them when they had gone but four feet from the track. 26736-2207
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