Charles E. Burr saved an unidentified woman from being killed by a train, Alliance, Ohio, June 8, 1921. The woman, while waiting for a freight train to pass on a track in front of her, stopped on a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of about 10 m.p.h. Burr, 29, yardmaster, ran about 95 feet along the side of the track and then ran between the rails and seized the woman’s sleeve, but it tore. Burr was carried by his momentum around in front of the woman, and he put his arm around her waist and lifted and dragged her off the track. Burr’s coat was brushed by the locomotive. 21788-1767
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