| Show FROM the THE JAWS OF neath beatin AN INFANT CHILD SAVED BY A locomotive ENGINEER what might have been a horrible event but which had a fortunate termination mi on such as we sometimes read about but seldom if ever see happened on the utah central track on third west street between third and fourth south at about fifteen minutes to eight yesterday morning the tle train was thundering soui southward Sward and the locomotive was about ten rods from the point indicated when the engineer mr foster thought he saw something upon the track which he supposed at first was a piece apiece of rub diu dih dish bish he was about to look away and pa pay y no further attention to it when he saw it move and in another second re cognized to his bis horror an infant child in the very centre ot of the track crawling across to the opposite side the cold sweat broke out upon his forehead as the awful truth flashed upon him but he kept his presence of mind and ana jumping to lever reversed his engine but it was almost too late for or before the train could be st stopped aped the cowcatcher cow catcher had bad reached 0 over r the prostrate child which was now half over tile the rall rali with with its little lead head on the outside just as the pilot wheel el w was 1 s aboul about to touch the body the locomotive like a merciful thing thins came to a standstill IL 11 had no sooner stopped than stowed the mother of the tt le one mrs pickering reached the spot ana catching hold hoid of the babas hands drew it out from the iron jaws of the monster which in another instant would have hive sacrificed it the wheel was all but touching the body and in a moment more w would 0 uld have passed s squarely over it ah the feelings feeling of the mother as she hugged her darling to her breast are better imagined than described she khe with others had seen the approaching train and started forthe for the child but she was the first to reach and rescue it it was wag a terrible shock to her nerves bul but she bore it bravely and as for forthe the thy faithful engineer it was a question as to which was the whiter he or mrs mra pickering the train was supplied with air brakes which acted as promptly as he did or nothing but a still greater inter interposition position of providence could have saved tho thu little one from certain death how HAW the baby which is a girl fifteen or sixteen months old just learning to tod dle die came upon the track was this z it had bad been given to its sister a girl of 0 nine or ten years to tend but she had thoughtlessly thoughtless lyl left it and tho the next she saw of it was ivas its little form creeping across the railway track and th the c snorting iron monster rushing towards it lif ili this is not a clear case of snatched from tho the jaws of death and one that would furnish a scene for a sensational drama we have not yet vet ct heard of one mrs rickering is a r j aident of the sixth ward |
