This Day in History: 1926-06-15

There was a near fatality at the Ramsey station. A girl, identified as Miss Pyle in the newspaper account, attempted to board the 7:55 express as it was already moving. She was dangling from the railing and would have been crushed by the railing alongside of the tracks except for the quick action of commuter William Troop of Ramsey. He got up from his seat and pulled her into the car from the platform. An eyewitness, in a letter to the Ramsey Journal, reported that she took the incident very lightly, claiming that she could have made it on her own. The letter’s author “L. R. B.” repeated with approval another passenger’s comment that “a good old fashioned spanking from her mother would help that young lady a whole lot.” (Bristow)