Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-25
A Young heroine
A wisconsin Girl saving'the Lives OF Hel
Little sisters and Brothers.

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Little Sisters and Brothers.
Thomas Velfe and wife, with a family
of small children, settled in Warsaw.
Wis, something more than year ago,
and, being poor, they, afterLinany hard
ships. erected small dwelling and
cleared few acres of land, but they
were in the wilderness ten miles from
neighbors. A few weeks ago the father
and mother left their family, consisting
of a girl aged u years, one aged 8 years,
and two other children, aged respective
lg years and Is months, on a trip to
the settlement,to geta cow and bring
in some potatoes to plant. After the
parents had been gone a few, hours the
house took fire and the oldest girl I'M
mediately rushed to the roof with water,
but not being able to remove the shin
giles she could do nothing to- stay the
flames, which gained rapidly spreading
on the inside of the roof, until bursting
through they drove her from Her work.
The heroic girl now turned her atten-
ton to saving her brotherseand sisters,
Coming to the door OF the building she
found that the child ne3t lIto her own
age had got out of the house bringing
the baby with her, but the little three
year old had crouched under q shaving
horse in the further corner oftheroem.
There being no chamber foor, the fire
was dropping from the burning roof
between The child and the door, and
when asked to come out, it vgefusedx to-
do SO, saying, 81 am safe here; the fire
don't drop here tIasto eqqrs s.ysryi.1
Our little heroine, says local paper,
hesitated only moment but rushing
through the falling embers brought the
little one to asafer placey both Ghaving
their clothes somewhat burnt. But
now comes the har1 est part Of the task
before her. Scantily clothed and with
no food she took the babe in herarms,
and with the other children started upon
the trail for the settlement. After 60
ing few miles she encountered rapid
stream, swollen by the spring rains, so
that in fording it the water came up TO
her arm-pits. She first carried the babe
across, and then the little three-year
old, and lastly half fled and half carried
the older sister through the water to
the other Bank. THEE times during
the remainder of tho day she struggled
across the swollen streams in her way
uHtil HlSHb Sep ~, ttua ruSSPs AQlSsb S SUI
rounding her. Cola, vet, and hungry.
she sought place to camp, and by good
fortune found an old camp, left by the
Indians, upon which about one-haH d
the roof still remained. Under this she
placed her little flock and then collected
pine boughs and made rude bed Plac-
ing the little one id the middle, The
heroic girl stripped off her dress and
spread it over the children, then cover
ed them with boughs tokeep them'from
the chilly night air, and sat down, be-
side them, to watch through that long
cold night comforting The little one
when it cried and speaking words of
cheer to the older isene.a o' The long,
dreary hours of night dragged slowly
by, and at the first peep of day sshe res
sumed her toilsonie' march, and had
nearly reached the first settler when she
met her parents returning. An older
md wiser head might have found an
eaiser way out of the dilemma, but we
feel certain that no one could have acted
Drawer or have endured more, than the
little daughter of Thonas Velfe.