R. Barnett Hollingsworth, 17, student, saved Gladys J. Arnold, 20, from being killed by a train, Bluff City, Tennessee, May 11, 1924. Miss Arnold and Barnett walked 100 feet out on a railroad bridge between the rails and then saw a passenger train coming from their rear at a speed of 25 m.p.h. and but 200 feet distant. The bridge had one track and no siderailing. It was 50 feet above a dry riverbed. Barnett pushed Miss Arnold by the arm to the edge of the bridge, and, sitting astride the wooden stringer outside the rail, he drew Miss Arnold against his breast. Then hooking one foot underneath the rail between two cross ties and placing his other foot against the steel girder under the stringer, he lay back away from the bridge and drew Miss Arnold across his body. The locomotive was then not more than 10 feet distant. It passed by them at a speed of 12 m.p.h. and stopped 150 feet beyond them. Miss Arnold was then pulled into a baggage car, the door of which was immediately above her. A step on the locomotive had scraped her back, tearing her clothes and causing a severe brush burn. After the train passed by, Barnett got to his feet. He was uninjured. 24307-2061
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