Charles R. Leonard, 26, streetcar conductor, saved Philpena Reisinger, 63, from being run over by a train, Elyria, Ohio, August 9, 1907. Leonard ran 40 feet ahead of a passenger train to the woman on the track and, grabbing her, pulled her to the safety gate, to which he clung with her while the train passed them at a speed of 50 m.p.h.
1876-181Charles R. Leonard
Elyria, OH