A BRAVE GIRL.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 285, 21 July 1908, Page 2

A BRAVE GIRL.

A thirteen-year-old girl, Miss Margaret Euler, is to be made an honorary member of' the New York fire brigade in recognition of her unexampled heroism during a lire in the east side of the city which rendered fifteen families homeless. While the panic-stricken people were struggling madly to - escape, the men trampling on the women, uhe girl mounted one of the iron staircases attached to the outside of the house, forced a way into a smoke-filled room, took a baby from its mother’s arms, and carried it to safety. Then she returned, took the woman’s second child, assisted the fainting mother to her feet, and guided both to the fresh air. For a third time the girl ventured into the suffocating room. 11 I bent low, as the firemen do,” she said afterwards, “ and heard a woman s voice. She was helpless, and had a baby and an older child. I took the baby and pulled the other with me.” Next the girl mounted to the fourth floor and rescued another woman and her baby. -.She went back yet once more, and led an eight-year-old boy to safety, after which the firemen arrived and relieved her of her task.