J. Joseph Bamber saved Suzanne M. Ulreich from being killed by a train, Hamilton, Ohio, September 7, 1951. While leading Suzanne, 2, and her 4-year-old sister across a track on which a passenger train was approaching at a speed of 25 m.p.h., their mother accidentally tripped and fell two feet outside the rail in a dazed condition. The sister ran to safety. Suzanne fell prone between the rails, became frightened, and was unable to crawl from the track. Bamber, 31, salesman, sprinted 40 feet on an asphalt crosswalk to the mother and shoved her two feet farther from the rail. He continued onto the track to Suzanne reaching her when the train was 25 feet from them. Taking hold of Suzanne, Bamber lunged from the track with her, barely clearing the train, which passed at undiminished speed. 42391-3776
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