HEROIC GIRL’S LOSS
ACCIDENT IN HOME - NEW GLASGOW, N.S., Feb. 2. The heroism of a 1 (5-year-old girl who lost four fingers when a dynamite cap exploded in her home at Lochaber Mines, 35 miles from here, was related yesterday when the story became known. The accident happened on Saturday. The girl is Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orestes ltes.sell. Their four-year-old son, Kenneth found the cap while playing outside the house and enteredl with it in his mouth. Helen recognised it and snatched it from him but in her haste she dropped it. The explosion tore four fingers from her hand and, injured slightly several others of the family. Not knowing ! M+w~_hacify—4rerhow badly they were hurt, and disregarding her own pain, she ran to get her father at work in a power plant some distance away.
It was not until she was satisfied her younger brothers and sisters were all right that she let a doctor dress her wound.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 184, 19 May 1939, Page 4
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161HEROIC GIRL’S LOSS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 184, 19 May 1939, Page 4
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