Randolph James saved Dora E. Powers from being killed by a train, Redkey, Indiana, April 20, 1942. Mrs. Powers, 76, walked on a crossing onto a track on which a freight train was approaching at a speed of 35 m.p.h. From the opposite side of the track James, 50, crossing watchman, repeatedly called to Mrs. Powers to get back, but she did not heed him. Carrying a stop signal and a flag in one hand, he then ran 50 feet; and crossing one rail, he took hold of Mrs. Powers’s arm and ran pushing her backward. James reached a point two feet outside the rail when the front of the locomotive passed them at unreduced speed. A step on the locomotive cleared him by less than a foot. Neither James nor Mrs. Powers was injured. 39636-3265
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