Harry W. Thornton saved Lorraine Sinchak from being killed by a train, Trenton, New Jersey, March 21, 1944. Lorraine, 6, ran on a crossing onto a track on which a passenger-train was approaching at a speed of 40 m.p.h. and fell prone between the rails. She tried to rise but again fell. Thornton, 23, assistant store manager, who just had walked over the crossing, ran 15 feet on hard-packed snow and ice to Lorraine, reaching her when the locomotive was within 60 feet of her. Grasping her coat beneath her arm with his hand, he jerked her up and, partly carrying and partly dragging her, started to run from the track. At his second step he slipped and fell to his knees at a point three feet from the track. Clasping Lorraine to his chest, he quickly crawled four feet farther. The locomotive then passed at slightly reduced speed. Neither Thornton nor Lorraine was injured. 40185-3389
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