. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in opposite directions. Threeyoung women were near the tracks; one of them crossedpart way and started to walk along the ties, with her backto the freight train. Friel saw that the young woman was giving attentionto the passenger train, so that she did not realize herdanger from the freight. His engine was going about sixmiles an hour. He dropped to the ground, and runningahead of the freight train, seized the young womanand drew her from the track just before it passed. As thetwo swung off the first track, they almost fell upon thepath of the engine f
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in opposite directions. Threeyoung women were near the tracks; one of them crossedpart way and started to walk along the ties, with her backto the freight train. Friel saw that the young woman was giving attentionto the passenger train, so that she did not realize herdanger from the freight. His engine was going about sixmiles an hour. He dropped to the ground, and runningahead of the freight train, seized the young womanand drew her from the track just before it passed. As thetwo swung off the first track, they almost fell upon thepath of the engine from which the brakeman had come;with another quick effort Friel regained his equilibriumand avoided the second danger. Miss Agnes Walsh, a stenographer of the Firth-SterlingSteel Company, was the person rescued. So quickly didit all happen that she remembers nothing, except findingherself held fast between two roaring engines. The employers of Miss Walsh have presented Mr. Friel witha check for a hundred dollars as a testimonial of their. BRAKEMAN J. M. FRIEL appreciation. They have also joined the safety move-ment by instructing all their employes to avoid walkingon railroad tracks in the future. THE OTHER RESTORES AN INJURED MAN We often hear men remark that it is a waste of time toattend First Aid lectures, and it is, at times, difficult toget the employes to take even sufficient interest to few days ago an incident occurred that illustrates thegreat value of these lectures. A gang of workmen weredigging a retaining wall between Huntingdon Avenue andWaverly, on the Philadelphia Division. One of the work-men slipped and fell on the third rail. Every one becameconfused. One man grabbed up a wet plank and triedto pry the man off the rail; plank and man were thrownseveral feet. A brakeman, on the Eastbound Extra,which had stopped, came running down the track to seewhat the trouble was, and immediately asked for a of the men gave him his jumper, and seeing tha
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