William J. Skayhan saved an unknown boy from being killed by train, Boston, Massachusetts, July 10, 1942. The boy, about nine years old, fell four and half feet from a subway platform onto the track on which a train was approaching at a speed of about 15 m.p.h., and he got on his hands and knees across one of the rails. Skayhan, 48, letter carrier, who heard the train approaching but could not see it because of a curve in a tunnel, jumped from the platform to a point between the running rails. He lifted the boy, stepping across one rail; saw the train not more than 100 feet distant; and thrust the boy toward two men on the platform, who pulled the boy onto it. Skayhan hurriedly crouched under an overhang of the platform when the train was six feet from him. The train came to a stop after moving 260 feet farther. 39670-3288
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