Walter Bradley, 27, switchman, saved Frank Mack, 6, from being run over by a train, Waco, Texas, October 26, 1912. Frank was crawling on the track on a bridge 50 feet above the bed of the Brazos River when a locomotive, running 3 or 4 m.p.h., backed a Pullman car on the bridge. Bradley was on the end of the car, and, believing that the train could not be quickly stopped because of difficulty in signaling the engineer, he clung to a handrail with one hand and stood on the bottom step with one foot while he swung around the end of the car and grabbed Frank. He swung Frank off the track, and in a moment his free foot struck a girder and his other foot slipped from the step. Hanging by one hand, with his feet below the ties, he held the child until the train was brought to a stop 70 feet from the point of rescue. Frank was uninjured, but Bradley was disabled six days because of muscular strain. 9533-820
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