Isaac L. Jones, 54, crossing watchman, saved Nellie A., 32; Edward M., 4, and Alice Heffernan, 1, from being run over by a train, Braintree, Massachusetts, May 14, 1912. Edward ran from his mother, under lowered safety gates at a crossing, toward a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of 40 m.p.h. Mrs. Heffernan, carrying Alice, ran after Edward. Jones, who had just warned them and then turned in another direction to warn others, ran after them. As they reached the track on which the train was, the train was about 50 feet from them, running at undiminished speed. Jones spread his arms, gathered Mrs. Heffernan and the children into them, and shoved them off the track. The locomotive rushed by just as they cleared the track. 8563-882
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