Martin D. Wade, 57, railroad flagman, attempted to save Raymond V. Ryan, 15, schoolboy, from being run over by a train, Mount Alton, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1912. While Raymond was attempting to board a slowly moving freight train from an embankment of snow, frozen solid, he fell between the train and the embankment. The space between the train and the snowbank was only five inches. Wade quickly got down between two cars and, while between the train and the embankment, made an unsuccessful attempt to grab Raymond. Raymond was run over, and Wade immediately made efforts to save himself from being crushed between the bank and the train. He groped upward and caught an iron fitting beneath a sliding door, and, holding to it with both hands, with his feet sometime inside and sometime outside of the rail, he was dragged 300 feet before the end of the embankment was reached. The train was then running 5 m.p.h., and he threw himself away from it and fell face downward beside the track. Wade’s whole body was badly wrenched, and he was disabled 54 days. Ryan was so badly injured that he died that night. 8224-747
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