Rice Woodford Nolen saved Wade Jones from being killed by a train, Spartanburg, South Carolina, October 9, 1940. Jones, 20, Civilian Conservation Corps member, stood on a rail of a track on which a train was approaching at a speed of 25 m.p.h. and held to a fence that was four feet from the rail. Nolen, 58, station master, from the side opposite the fence ran 22 feet to a point between the rails, reaching Jones when the locomotive was 25 feet from them. He tried to pull Jones from the fence but did not move him. Placing one foot on the rail and his hand on Jones’s back, he jumped to the fence, clearing the track when the locomotive was two feet from him, and at the same time pushed Jones toward the fence. The train’s cylinder, which was its outermost projection, reached to a point 15 inches from the fence and brushed Jones. Nolen got hold of the fence and held himself and Jones against it, and the locomotive passed them at a reduced speed of 10 m.p.h. Jones was not injured. 38756-3209
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