A TELEPHONE HEROINE.
BRAVERY AT AMERICAN EXCHANGE. ■WOMAN PAYS FOR HEROISM WITH LIFE. United Press Association, Copyright (Received August 81, 10.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. Mrs. Sarah Rook, telephone operator at Fulsoni, learning of the approach of a wall of water, telephoned 40 subscribers, enabling them to save themselves and families, The bureau was wrecked, and her mutilated body was found twelve miles distant, the telephone receiver still fixed at her head.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2284, 1 September 1908, Page 3
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73A TELEPHONE HEROINE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2284, 1 September 1908, Page 3
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