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Show CHILD SAVES BABY SISTER Asks Why There Are Times When You Can't Make Your Legs Go Fast Enough. Eugene, Ore. While neighbors shut their eyes, expecting to see three-year-old Dorothy Wooley ground to death beneath a Southern Pacific passenger pas-senger train before her home, Gladys Wooley, her seven-year-old sister, sped 150 feet and, paying no heed to the approaching cars, lifted the little one from the track. The side of the locomotive struck Gladys as she fled to one side. Her dress was torn, but she was uninjured. Spectators do not understand how the little figure which flew past them reached the train in time. "Mother, why is it that when you see some one on the track you can't make your legs go fast?" asked the little seven-year-old girl after the accident, acci-dent, not thinking of herself. "I saw the engine way down the track, and before I could get to Dorothy it was almost there." The shriek of . the whistle which started the race between the sister and the locomotive was the same which brought the children's mother and a dozen neighbors to their doors, yet only the child moved. The girl's father, J. C. Wooley, credits cred-its Engineer Mason with throwing the emergency brakes and doing all possible pos-sible to stop his train. Little Dorothy was, crossing the tracks with her red wagon when the sound of the whistle startled her. It caused her to sit dovyn in tha center of the track, dazed. The red wagon was splintered. |