Agnes D. Standifer saved Vernie M. Cranford and Roland A. Standifer from being killed by a train, Albion, Oklahoma, November 2, 1919. Vernie, 4; Roland, 5, and a small brother of Agnes’s were playing on a railroad track at the middle of a bridge, which was 12 feet above the ground, and failed to notice a train approaching on the track. When the train was 700 feet from the children, Agnes, 12, who was at the end of the bridge, ran 50 feet to them, grasped Vernie, and threw her off the bridge. She lifted Roland in one arm and took her brother in her other arm and jumped from the bridge with them. She cleared the track when the locomotive, which was then running about 20 m.p.h., was five feet from them. None of the children was injured. 20542-1742
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