Newspaper Extract
Escape of a child at Rotherham
August, 1844While the up midday train was passing along the North Midland Railway, near the Rotherham station, on Saturday last, a little boy suddenly darted from his father's arms over the side of one of the second class carriages.
The train was going at full speed at the time, and it was with difficulty the father could be restrained from leaping out of the carriage, so great was his anxiety to know the fate of his child.
The circumstances having been communicated to the guard, he ordered the train to be put back for nearly two miles for that purpose, when, strange to say, the poor little fellow was perceived on the embankment, unhurt.
On seeing his parent, he laughed and exclaimed, "Father, father, I am not hurt!" It turned out that he had fallen on the verge of the line, and fortunately rolled down the embankment, which thus broke the shock that he must have, perhaps, fatally experienced had he come in sudden contact with the level ground.
Source:Leicester Chronicle
