Show GAVE UP DP HER LIFE heroic Sacrifice to Save Her fler Little DOT Boy from Being Killed by a a. Train The heroic impulse of Mrs h rs John in her pushing year six old son way away from her saved the boys boy's life lifo at the expense of the mothers mother's ex- ex stence She was 28 23 years old the wife of a a- a farmer livi living g near Lyndhurst J L. L I. I She was walking with her son toward to Babylon on th the east bound track of the theLong theLong theLong Long Island railroad The train left Babylon at in the afternoon bound for Long Island City Mother andson were in no ho danger wh where whre re they were They could see see the tr train in th three ee miles s aw away foT the he road I luns runs perfectly straight at that point The boy was walking at his mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's side and was next the west-bound west A MOTHERS MOTHER'S NOBLE DEED track rack The on-coming on train w was s rushing rushing rush- rush ing ng at high speed That tr tremendous mend us- us fascination even grown rown people sometimes feel when they are looking nt at a a. swiftly approaching train train train-a a tie tie- e- e sire ire to throw oneself in front of the must locomotive must have taken possession possession possession posses posses- sion of the child The The boy gave a scream and darted across the tracks He TIe paused for a n second in the path of the train His llis mother sprang after hi him That one second enabled h her r to catch up tip with him lim It was a matter of a fraction of a a. second She thrust the boy from her j just st as the train struck her Death came to her instantly happened EO so suddenly that Mrs frs Som- Som was a corpse before Engineer Forbell Torbell could close the throttle and check the speed of the train The train rain crew went back to find the victim Engineer Forbell had told the others how low the woman had given up her ber life in n the effort to save the bo boy and they wondered if she had succeeded When they found the thc womans woman's body the he trainmen took off their caps and andears tears ears streamed down their faces as ashey they hey lifted the remains to the side of the he track where they placed a guard over them Not far away they found the child unconscious but alie e. e H He was carried I into nto a car and placed on seat sent cushions while the train speeded to Long rong Island Is- Is land and City where an ambulance was I waiting In St. St Johns John's hospital Dr Cassid Cassidy found that the boys boy's collarbone and right rig arm were broken nod and his scalp badly cut The physician said lie would recover reco |