This is great story of a person who came upon a terrible accident and with his quick thinking and using only the resources he could find, saved a persons' life.

A man with no medical training managed to save a young woman's life when both her legs were severed by a train and he managed to tie the protruding arteries of her legs into knots.

Complete news story here.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock