David Phillips, 27, mine fire-boss, saved Martin A. Wright, 79, from being run over by a train, Snowden, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1912. Phillips was eight feet from Wright on the opposite side of a railroad track when Wright stepped inside the rails in front of a passenger train that was approaching at a speed of 7 m.p.h. Phillips immediately stepped to a position with one foot just outside the rail and the other about midway between the rails, and when the pilot of the locomotive was but 10 feet distant, he grabbed Wright with both hands. He pulled Wright toward him and swung himself off the track, barely missing being struck. The locomotive ran 100 feet beyond Phillips before the train was brought to a stop. 8704-732
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