The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-02

IeInSyiNtnid ledllrOdu cnSlneeI,
yesterday, snatched Willie Tamplin,
aged years. from beneath the ice
covered surface of deep pond, Mt
Fairhill Station, and almost perish
isbing with cold. was brought ashore
with his nearly dead charge
The child, whose parents reside
at No. 1910 North Twenty-seyenth
street, Philadelphia, on Sunday visit
cd the family of Eugene Small, at
No. 2974 Leithgow street. Late in
the afternoon three of the latter $
children and the little visitor start
ed from the house for walk. They
went toward the railroad, which is
close by, and for time watched the
passing trains, finally starting to re-
turn home at o'clock.
AT Fairhill Station the tracks OF
the North Penn and the Reading
Roads cross, and in the angle the
workmen in making excavations for
the embankment left q deep hole.
Water fully fifteen feet deep has
collected there, covering nearly an
acre of ground. This pond the chill
dren discovered as they walked
along, and one ofthem tossed stick
out on the thin ice that covered the
surf Willie wanted to recover
it az tarted TO walk toward it.
Nun fully twenty yards from the
sho he treacherous ice, weakened
by /. warm sun, suddenly broke
benz h his weight and in twink
ling helpless child was founder
ing the ice-cold water. His little
COM Mons shrieked with terror,
but could render no aid and he
slowly sank, reappealing the next
instant and partially grasping the
edge )f the ice to sustain himself
Tho thunder of freight train No.
4j a. he North Penn tracks run
ninG st under full steam drowned
the e. IS of the children, but Engi-
neer 'orphy, from his seat in the
cab, W the struggling boy and un-
derst od thosituation. Three sharp
blast of the whistle sounded down
brakos' to the crew, and then clos
ing the throttle and crowding back
the reverse bar Torpey jumped from
hisbngine before it scarcely Stacked
speed.
HkNell rather than ran down the
- sfsefAem5an&mont and throwing
aside his coat and cap Jumped 70
the escue. The ice that had sus-
tainod the lite boy for twenty yards
gayo way under the heavy man at
his ,st step and he was in the deep
wat D.. Swimming and fighting he
ken N hammering with both fists
at b stroke the rotten ice ahead,
and orally mashing and crushing
a mel for himself toward the
hol trough which the child had
an ant before disappeared. 9th
ers now reached the edge of the
por )ut all seemed petrifed with
frie
n easing for an instant his ef-
for oIpoy at last broke through
to ole on which all eyes were
cen !. Diving into the water, in
a fo conds he rose with the I'M
con and almost dead child in
his yasp.
Hs iollow trainmen had by this
tim secured ladder from Fairhill
stapn and forming a line succeed
ed reaching its end to the fast
weaening engineer. He grasped
thead firmly and with his senseless
burbn was drawn ashore. Willing
hanQ took the child and rushed to
MIS- home where DR.. Laughridge,
.o. Td work, restored conscious
4o, lld afterward pronounced the
d., lltient out of danger.
Z exhausted but still conscious
u4 aer, was hurried to Reading
en. ia and once aboard all speed
a made for Kensington avenue
ua ing. Patrol No. 10 was there
ta oet the engine, and Sergeant
l er carried Torpey to the wag-
lie had become unconscious
t0l cold despite the heat of the
DlazAg engine furnace, and anima.
tic tas almost entirely suspended
Tuo hinutes later he was laid on A
&C nthe Episcopal Hospital.
}yforced respiration, hypoder-
n , iiections of quinine and the
a. Plittion of hot water bags the
ffkelng spark of life in the engi
Igbr' body was revived and bo f;n