Show A HERO IN THE RANKS the action of charles Wil klup a locomotive fireman in the employ of the be northern railway of now new jersey oo on saturday morning MOr Dillig last deserves a place in history to indicate to future generations the heroism which finds tre frequent quent expression la in deeds in toll this age and which should prove an tive live in others to like acts of unselfish courage four tracks lie Hs side aide by side aide at tb western approach to the bergen tunnel near jersey city the train on which wilkins was war came around a curve just jual want 0 the tun tunnel nelso mouth at the rate of about twenty miles an bur b mr As A soon boon as aa the eugine engine was on the ibe straight track wilkins gian glancing cing ahead saw a woman in the track of his bis own engine ahna as be watched her she stepped hurriedly over to the eris erie rails where abe be apparently waiting for his bis train to pass As wilk ribs Dsa rib s train was wa borne down on her bar an erie die passenger train shot out 0 the anuel behind her at the rate of thirty miles an hour bur the roar of both trains was in her bar ears and she was paralyzed with fear in ID a few seconds the erie train would be upon hers her hough ih be northern bero would reach the point first wilkins grasped the situation situ atin at orice once slow down 1911 1 jump for her ys said eald be to the engineer it was a desperate risk of his own life brakes were applied and when bis bin engine was about thirty feet from the woman allkins its lum lumped pet the eris erie rain was wae within sixty yards and IL a slip meant death under the ponderous but the fir fireman timan did aft slip cho womac saw him but terror held bold her bar there luere sao bue screamed when be denizad her bar as it if his bis touch had given her voice she was no DO lightweight light weight but wilkins raised her in his hia arms and leaped tj ti the strip or sand beside the track her feet had scarcely cleared ibe rails when the express by the wind of it 0 vering the woman and her rescuer with dust wilkins iid not stop to ask why she abe was eners bere or what her name was war he saw that she was uninjured nj however frightened did not appear to be oo 00 one 4 t the fainting kind so be ran away from rom her ber shrieks crossed the erie track again and as his own train the speed of which bad been reduced went by be swung himself abo abban rj tae rear oar car three hundred passengers were oo on the northern train many of whom had bad men been the act their attention beine attracted by the slowing down tey know knew that a misstep meant widowhood lot for mra wilkins and sorrow borrow for five young joung children in the town of jyoo where the fir fireman amanIa home war w and the knowledge of the ganger danger that ha ba i 1 been passed through to in the homana life brought hearty cheer and congratulations for ane brave fire man hla his cu our raife nige la Is of that high order that la is inspired by that greater love which seeks beha KB its reward in the salvation alva iob of a fellow being and which receive its iti full recompense irona from a source higher than all mortal conditions |