The Washington times., 1905-08-20
A Daring Leap to a Runaway Train on
the Santa Fs Road.

pushed one Of the youngsters out of
the path and then. unable to swing the
other out OF danger. deliberately shell
tered il with his own body. took the
force OF the horses hoofs himself and
saved the child. He. though seriously in
Jured, recovered. the children were I'M
hurt.
Another story with a happier ending
IS that OF a pretty San Francisco girl
a Miss Berrian-who got mixed up in
the collision OF two cable cars one night
The cars coliided almost at right angles
and somehow two persons, a man and
girl got pinned under one of them
pinned under in such "a way that If the
rescuers tilted the car a bit to release
either one. il must crush the other The
fire department was called out; the me-
chanicaI force OF the trolley company;
policemen citizens. ambulance surgeons
all labOred for three hours TO release
the two. The man was helpless and ap-
parently too numb with terror 10 think
Bat the girl had her wits about her. She
warned the men OF the dangers they
could not see. OF the great forked grip
that lay between the two and threatened
30 crush one or the other the position
OF the trucks over their body For three
hours she lay there. IN pain, for her leg
was broken, and not more than q
quarter of an inch from death at times
directing the rescuers, not merely how
to save her, but how to save both OF
them. And following her directions they
did save them both. the man unhurt.
the girl with her leg broken, but as
she said nothing that can't be mended.''
And Just this last week there has
climbed into a place by the side OF
the artist, and the servant girl and the
Woodworking old coIored man. New
York society girl-not a mere newspaper
belle. but the genuine article-Aliss Gym
thia Burke Roche, of New York and
Newport, who stopped a runaway and
saved a terror-stricken child who was
clinging 10 the swaying wagon in mo-
mentary danger OF being pitched out.
Truly II IS mixed gathering, this good
ly company Of heroes.
Probably had Miss Roche been in
jured the world would have asked, as it
did Of Thomas Havenden. WAS Il worth
While2'' For the self-respect of the great
human family. II is always worth while
/ It was that that made Brand and
| BrowE-1rst names uuknown-risk a
| Shiny creeping death in the diamond
mines of South Africa on the chance Of
| reaching & couple of Kafir boys while
| white men-Brown a miner, 81 big,
splendidly developed fellow, who had
| been a football player. Brand ii member
| Of the Diamond Field Horse of South
| Africa Both were working In the De
| Beers mine near Kimberly IN June. 1897.
when this happened.
! From the mouth OF the tunnel there
I was a sudden eruption of Katfirs. half
naked. and wholly mad with terror
! There was trouble at the 1,O09-foot level
! the worst trouble that diamond mines
| are subject tG-trouble creeping thick
/ slow moving. yet irresistible. behind these
| terTor-stricSen blacks-trouble in the
shape OF q stream OF blue mud. IL hap
| pens that way In diamond mlnes-no one
knows why. and there Is no warning as
| TO when. The tunnel strikes soft earth
and there follows Il rush of mud. the
I greatest terror Of the mines. There is no
/ sudden outward explosion, such as the
| pressure Of water would make. The
miner may have his back 10 II when it
| buIges from the tunnel and flows out
ward silently. heavily. and when he
/ turns again II is upon him ready TO swaI-
/ low him. and filing the tunnel with its
/ thick, suffOcating flood.