Word: pruden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineer John Russ, seeing Mr. Pruden, tried to obey, put on the emergency brakes, also blew the locomotive's whistle. Prudent Mr. Pruden, noticing that the train had only been able to slow down to 40 miles per hour as it approached him, jumped. The locomotive's cowcatcher nipped him, knocked him 50 feet...
...Orange, N. J., one Louis Pruden, venerable bee farmer of Whippany, N. J., stood in the middle of the railroad track facing a speeding Lackawanna train. "The Lord commands you to stop!" cried he loudly...
Still conscious, with only his right leg broken, Mr. Pruden told the two policemen who picked him up: "Listen boys, I came down here to see if the Lord would look after me. I expected Him to protect me. But He didn't. You can see that for yourselves. . . . Still I'm not faultin' Him. He did pretty well to keep me alive...