A BRAVE IRISH GIRL.
A bravo deed has been done by a young woman named White, living in a lonely part of County Galway, about ten miles from Ballinsaloe. She is a herdsman's daughter, and lived with her father and brother in the usual thatched house. At an early hour one morning she found the house on lire, and on going into the room where her father and brother slept she found both lying unconscious in bed, overcome by the thick smoke which filled the house. At first she had to fly from the room, unable to rouse the men, but afterwards she returned, and carried one after the other out of the burning building in her arms. She had scarcely tottered outside the door with her brother's unconscious form in her arms when the roof fell in. As soon as assistance arrived the two men were restored to consciousness. The girl was badly burned about the body.—" St. James's Gazette."
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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161A BRAVE IRISH GIRL. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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