| Show Heroic Car Operator Rescues Small Child in Pathway of Death A A Year Two-Year-Old Infant Is Saved From Being Hurt as Trolley Closes In I II I Motorman Drops Cowcatcher Cowcatcher Cowcatcher Cow i catcher in Time to Save I Life of Helpless Boy BoyDy I IBy By Dy IMOGENE I Through the heroism and coolness coolness coolness cool cool- ness of ot Henry L. L McDermott operator op op- i on the Second South street streetcar car line little Murray George Stowe two and a half year old son of II B. B and Loretta Stowe East Second South street was saved from being crushed to death beneath the wheels of Df f a street car carin carin carin in front of his home Friday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon at clock o'clock Running directly In front of the moving car McDermott l was pilotIng pilotIng piloting pilot- pilot Ing the child was was- In a position to have been swept under the wheels With his attention centered on stopping the car McDermott had presence of mind enough to drop the safety scoop under the front fender by operating a lever near at hand The child was scooped up by bythe the emergency equipment and dragged six feet before the car could be Willard Villard Hansen lo local al attorney Jumped out of the automobile he was driving east pulled little Murray from the scoop under which h his ills body had slipped half way and rushed him to the emergency hospital before the operator op operator operator op- op or eyewitnesses could reach the crying boyI boyI boy I 1 sure felt terrible McDermott S said Saturday morning In reviewing the near death RAN FROM CURB I was was going west on Second South when a little fellow In overalls overalls' overalls over over- alls alls' ran out from the curbing a car length away I rang the gong and when the child didn't stop I applied applIed applied ap ap- ap- ap plied the bra brakes es so violently that the main mechanisms In the car were demolished He didn't realize the car was coming until he got directly In front of ot me Then he stopped and looked right up in my face It was terrible I dropped the tile scoop but the car was going so fast that it dragged six abc feet before It could be stopped The kid had slipped sUpped under the scoop and the sleeve of Ills his coat had caught so SQl that I had to reverse three feet before Mr Hansen who took him to the tile hospital could drag him from under the tile car If the scoop hadn't dropped the wheels of the car would have ilave gone right over his little body Mr Hansen took the bo boy away before I could reach him and I 1 didn't know he was killed or not until I stopped at his house on the return trip forty-five forty minutes minutes min mm- utes after and found that he hadn't even torn his Ills clothes I have four kiddies of my own and I know how hov howit it feels I 1 sure was glad The big smiling operator shook his shock of black hair and patted his year-old year son on on the head a nice way to celebrate my seventh anniversary this month In the street car service wasn't It son he said The first time Ive I've ever come near hurting anybody with my car McDermott is 36 years old and lives at Goshen street Little Murray according to the story told by bv his llis grandmother Mrs Edgar J. J Stowe was playing on the curb In charge of his llis year old brother Seeing her coming coining out of ofa ofa ofa a grocery store across the street the tiny fellow toddled out to meet her unaware of the car and the gong McDermott t was frantically sounding Scratches about the arms and the head three wounded fingers and a slightly bruised left side were the thel only Injuries suffered by the th child |
