R. Pauline McKinney, 15, student, saved Robert W. Drye, 2, from being run over by a train, Van Alstyne, Texas, October 14, 1910. Pauline saw Robert about to cross a track on which a passenger train, less than 450 feet from him, was approaching at a speed of about 20 m.p.h. He reached the rail of the track and was unable to step over it. Pauline ran 200 feet to him, leaned over the rail, grabbed him by his ankle and an arm, and swung away from the track just as the locomotive passed the spot at undiminished speed. She fell down an embankment with the child in her arms, but neither was injured. 5758-770
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