Edgar Forman, 35, engine foreman, saved Bessie L. Betts, 8, from being killed by a train, Dallas, Texas, November 30, 1915. Bessie, who was deaf, stood between the rails of a track with her back toward a train which was approaching at a speed of 6 m.p.h. The engine, which was at the rear of the train, was stopped, but the forward car was uncoupled and continued on. Forman was standing on the car, a flat one, and he attempted to jump to the track when the car was six feet from the girl to rescue her, but his foot caught on a coupling lever, and he fell across a rail of the track. When falling, his outstretched hand struck Bessie and knocked her off the track. Forman put his hand against the wheel of the car, and the wheel bumped and pushed him along the rail for 20 feet, and the car then stopped. Foreman’s back and side were bruised, but not seriously. 16200-1492
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