Troy W. Pridmore saved Mayme C. Cater from being killed by a train, Easley, South Carolina, September 29, 1941. Mayme, 5, was on the rear seat of an automobile that her mother drove on a crossing onto a track on which a freight-train was approaching at a speed of 15 m.p.h. The motor stopped, and Mayme’s mother got out and tried to push the automobile. Pridmore, 29, loom doffer, ran 29 feet to the automobile, a door of which was open, got hold of Mayme, and lifted her from the automobile. Mayme’s mother ran to safety. Pridmore ran carrying Mayme; and when he had cleared the automobile by four feet, the locomotive struck it at unreduced speed. No one was injured. 39263-3258
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