Arthur Simmons, 25, laborer, saved Bobbie J. Carter, 4, from being killed by a train, Lemon Springs, North Carolina, September 6, 1943. Among 10 occupants of an automobile, Bobbie and four other young children were in the rear part of it when it was stalled on a railroad-track on which a passenger-train was approaching at a speed of 60 m.p.h. Simmons ran to the automobile and carried two children from it while other persons removed other children. Then seeing Bobbie alone in the automobile, Simmons ran to the rear door at a point midway between the rails, the locomotive then being but 300 feet distant. Jerking open the door, he grabbed Bobbie by her arm and took a hurried step and a jump to a point five feet from the rail. At that moment the locomotive moving at unreduced speed struck the automobile.40049-3367
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