Henry West, 34, crossing watchman, died saving Judson A. Haviland, 9, and Charles W. Jones, 11, from being run over by a train, Asbury Park, New Jersey, September 27, 1913. The boys were driving a pony at a trot toward a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of 25 m.p.h., they not having seen the train because of another which had just passed. West, who had but one arm, waved a warning to them from the opposite side of the track and then ran across the track and grabbed the harness beneath the pony’s head, stopping the pony. The pony turned aside, and West lost his hold, falling with his head very close to the track just as the locomotive began to pass him. A step of the locomotive struck him, causing injuries from which he died several hours later. Neither of the boys was injured. 11765-966
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