Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-22
Gould May Educate the Boy Leroy
lrycn Dixon VINO Tagged
Engineer
STORY OF YOUNGSTERS GRIT.
Ran SObbiug Up Track Waving His
handkerchief lor Fear Would
Be loo Late.

The following story Of the deed OF q
boy who saved q train load %, passen-
GERS from certain destruction comes
from Durango colo.
Leroy lyen Dixon, the boy hero Of the
railway men OF the san Juan division
Of The Rio Grande railway has been the
guest Of j. c. McCabe, the engineer
whose train DC saved O wscN ago fr4m
dashug against big rock slide at the
most dangerous curve 10 the narrow
walled AnImas canyon, Nh McCabe
| brought the hoy to Durango, entertained
him at his home and gave him a good
Tune sightseeing UuUl the morning
be saved train No. NO bound Tor Den-
YER and crowded with passengers, ROY
had never seen the inside OF a passcn.
gen coach, When taken On he said.
"Oh, amt this uice2 / never saw the
inside OF "a coach before"
Engineer McCabe best tells the story
Of saving the train. he said Had IL
not been for this boy / could not have
stopped my train, for I was coming
down grade on a rounding right hand
curve, and while the boy had gotten 200
yards away from the rock slide.
needed all that distance 20 stop without
derailing my coaches where deraIlment
meant precipitation Of the entire train
10 the depths of the narrow granite
walled canyon where the Animas flows
below, ana where no human on the
lrain could have escaped instant death
We we're a mile and a half above Rock.
wood near the high line trestle, hay-
ing Just passed over II, and several tons
Of rock had fallen on the track from
the clif above, one piece Weighing
over "a ton. / saw the boy with q red
handkerchief waving and coming on a
dead run for the engine, and began TO
slow up,
AS soon as | had brought the train
TO a standstill the little fellow told me
to hurry back down the track to dag
the up train, but we had the right Of
way and there was no danger The
train crew was assisted by the pas
sengers and We had the track clear In
half an hour
This boy has been walking five and
q half miles to school at lockwood and
back every day His parents own a
luIlln hI AIt IlNtl hllu are UOL very
we'll TO do, on the morning he tagged
my train he was four miles from home.
He was running and crying with fear
lest he would not be able to stop the
train and had he not had the red hand
kerchief In his hand 1 might not have
understood his purpose and gone with
the train to certain destruction.
81 heard a story from one of the
pupils Of the lockwood school since
the slide accident Roy had taken his
red and doubtless somewhat soied
bandant from his pocket and put Il 10
his face when his teacher demonstrated
that he should not have such a hideous
looking rag, but that bandana
solled and torn as It is served
noble purpose and Is now
held sacred by the passengers and crew
of my train whose lives were saved by
its being waved.
Engineer McCabe bought Roy a new
suit OF clothes while his guest, and
many other little things introducing
him as the hero Of the hour The child
expresses the greatest Joy that he was
able to save the lives OF the people on
the train. He is naturally modest as
such a child might be expected from
a. dreary ranch IN a lonely canyon,
without brother or sister or playmate,