Two Boys Die Trying to Protect Kitten, April 3, 1923

Baby Heroes Give Lives in Futile Effort to Save Kitten From Track; 3 Die Together

By the United Press

New York, April 3—A kitten frolicked about on a trestle of the Lackawanna Railroad at Clifton, New Jersey, late yesterday.

Walter Van Revercan, 9, and Fred Vost, 8, heard the roar of a train n the distance and rushed to the kitten’s assistance.

Too late, the engineer of the Buffalo Express got a glimpse of the little figures on the track.

The whistle shrieked a warning, the brakes gripped the wheels, but the train was swept on by its own momentum.

When the mutilated victims were carried away the headless body of the kitten was gripped tightly in Walter’s hand.

From the front page of The Kinston Daily Free Press, April 3, 1923