A BRAVE BOY'S FATE. He Gives Up His Own Life to Save His Little Sister

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 138, 23 January 1886, Page 5

A BRAVE BOY'S FATE. He Gives Up His Own Life to Save His Little Sister

A New York "Times" special from Rondout says : Luther Krom, of Kripplebush, Ulster County, was crushed to death near this place three days ago. Krom etarted out after a load of hop poles on the Shawangunk mountains, taking with him his three sisters and one brother. On the return trip he took the youngest girl on his lap and the others sat on the top of the hop poles in the near part of the vehicle. When about half way homo young Krom turned around to see if his sis ters were comfortable, when the horses suddenly turned out; of the road, and the wagon striking a log, was upset. The .children in the rear part of the wagon escaped; without a scratch, but Luther Krom and bis little eister were pinned fast under the heavy load of wood. Krom was in such a position that he could save his sister if he sacrificed himself, and the brave boy did it. His sisters and his little brother tried to extricate himj but could not. They ran home) and. willing neighbours were soon found - who hurried to the sceno of the accident. Young Krom was found dead, with the reins firmly clasped in his hands. , His little sister Lucy was unhurt, and ehe was found asking the boy who had bravely given up his life to save hers why he did not speak, to her., The lad's funeral was * the largest < one for many years in this part of Ulster County.; The record of the Krom family .shows a singular fatality. Young Krom's uncle was found dead near Kripplebush one cold winter morning, his grandfather was drowned in a pond near there, and other- members of the same family have met untimely deaths,