John R. Hoffmann, 26, clerk, saved Andrew F. O’Bryan, 78, physician, from being run over by a train, Longview Junction, Texas, December 19, 1913. O’Bryan, who was somewhat hard of hearing, drove toward a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of 15 m.p.h. When his horse was five feet from the track and the locomotive was 60 feet from the horse, Hoffmann ran toward the horse from a point 35 feet in front of it. He grabbed the bit when the horse had its forefeet between the rails, and threw all his strength into an effort to back the horse. The locomotive was then 15 feet distant, and the speed had not been decreased. Hoffmann forced the horse back and barely cleared the track himself before the locomotive passed. 12807-992
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