Eleanor B. Bunn, 40, housewife, saved Marian Shaw, 60, librarian, from being killed by a train, Wilson, North Carolina, April 3, 1955. At a railroad crossing the two-door sedan Miss Shaw was driving stalled on a track on which a freight-train was approaching at a speed of 40 m.p.h. The engineer applied the brakes when the locomotive was 600 feet from the crossing. Mrs. Bunn’s hushand, who had stopped his automobile 10 feet behind the Shaw sedan, ran to the stalled vehicle and attempted to push it from the track as Miss Shaw tried to open the door of the automobile. When the train was less than 200 feet away Mrs. Bunn saw that her hushand was unable to move the vehicle and ran toward the Shaw sedan, calling to Miss Shaw to get out. Mrs. Bunn reached the stalled vehicle, where she stepped onto the track and jerked open the door. Grasping Miss Shaw’s arm, she pulled her from the automobile and then dragged her from the path of the train. As the two women reached a point eight feet from the track the locomotive struck the stalled sedan while traveling at a speed of 30 .m.p.h. The impact of the locomotive hurled the vehicle 25 feet. The locomotive stopped 1,200 feet beyond the crossing. Miss Shaw and Mrs. Bunn were uninjured. 43456-4041
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