The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-04
A HEROIC DEED.
Mother Saves Her
Child From Sure
Death.
is CAUGHT HERSELF
Mrs. Edith Lane Badly Man
gled By Locomotive
May Not Live,

Mrs. Edith Lane, wife of Leonard ].
Lane, residing on West Boylston
street, GreendaIe, was struck last
night by the passenger train due in
Worcester at sos o'clock from Nashua,
on the Boston and Maine, and by her
presence of mind saved her daughter
from sharing similar fate.
Mrs. Lane is probably seriously in
jured in the opinion of DR.. P. P. Co
mey of Lincoln street, who was sum
moned by officer Mason, who arrived
shortly after the accident. DR.. ]. T.
Mexican was also summoned acting
for the railroad, and both physicians
worked hard over the woman, doing all
they could to save her life.
Mrs. Lane and her daughter had
been out early in the evening, hanging
a May basket, and were returning to
their home by the way of the railroad,
which is short cut. Mrs. Lane noticed
the headlight of an engine drawing a
freight train coming toward her on
the same track and she stepped over
on the opposite track, taking her
daughter with her. On account Of the
noise made by the big engine on the
freight she did not hear the passenger
train bearing down on her. The head
light on the freight, shone full on the
track ahead, but both Mrs. Lane and
her daughter were out of its rays
The passenger was within few rods
of her when she stepped over onto the
opposite track, and as it got directly
behind her she suddenly realized the
position she was in.
She picked her daughter up and
threw her off the track, and was about
to step off herself when the cow catcher
on the engine picked her up and threw
her about 40 feet onto one side of a
brook where she was found by some of
the nearby inhabitants, who were sum
moned by her daughter.
In the meantime the little child real
lied the extent of her mothers injuries
and went to the brook and brought as
much water as she could in her hands
and threw it on her mothers face.
officer Mason was one of the first to
arrive, and he, with the aid of others,
managed to carry her to a more COM
Portable position. A chair was secured
and it was proposed to move her, but
when the men tried to get her into the
chair she plainly showed that she could
not sit up. The child was crying at her
mothers fate, and it finally became ne
cessary to carry her away.
plank board was picked up and
Mrs. Lane was laid on it and
carried to her home, where Drs. Comey
and McKoan worked over her.
Her left leg is mashed to a pulp from
the ankle down, and her right hip is
torn badly. The exact extent of her
injuries were not known last night, but
it was thought her chances for recov-
cry were slim.
The engineer stopped the train as
soon as he felt the shock, and he with
Conductor W. F. Hurlbert did every
thing they could for the suffering wo-
man. Conductor Hurlbert summoned
DR.. McKoan who is the railroad physi-
clan.
1t was impossible for the engineer,
according to the statements of some of
the railroad men who saw the acct
dent, to see the woman, as the head
light shone over her head as she
stepped onto the track.
The child escaped without a scratch,
which shows plainly that her mother
threw her out of harms way. 1t is
considered to be one of the most heroic
deeds done by a woman in a long time.
1t would have been easy for her to
jump off the track when she first heard
the noise of the train, but this she re-
fused to do in order to save her child.
If she should survive she will lose her
left leg.