Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-23
LITTLE GIRLS BRAVERY.
The Plucky Deed of Lizzie Smith
Thrills the Whole of England.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
London, Jan. l2--lIcre Is an cspc-
cialy taken picture Of plucky little
girl Of six Of whom all England has
been talking for the past week. She
lives at ketterinI, and when fire
occurred IN her home few
nights ago, while she and her little baby
brother were alone, she saved the in
fants life by Il display Of bravery and
presence Of mind Of which probably few
grown ups could have been capable Of
This siX-yoar-od heroinc.s name is
Lizzie Smith, and with her light brown
hair and rosy cheeks she Is decidedly
pretty. on the night when she distin.
guIshed herself IL this way, her father
ami mother had gone out to make a
| call, leaving IAzzie and the little baby
brother Of 10 month alone for the first
time The two children were In bed in
| a room on the second noor Of the
Smith house, and In which a parailn
lamp was burning, Late IN the eve
ming this lamp suddenly exploded, the
burning oil running down on the loor
with the result that the linoeum the
wall paper and a chair soon Were
abla2c.
OF the two sleeping children the baby
awoke first and began crying which
aroused It's sister. When Lizzie sat up
In bed she found the room ahre and full
Of smoke, and it seems 10 have struck
her that the first thing TO do was to
get some fresh air into the house aud
allow the smoke to escape. So she got
out on the lloor avoiding the part that
was burning, and then hurried down
stairs into the kitchen, The backdoOr
of the house was locked, but Lizzie
knew that the key Of 1t vas hanging
on a nail over the kitchen sink 50 she
got W on the sink. and In this way
managed 10 reach II. after which she
unlocked the back door and threw II
open.
Then she thought It was time to 60
for her baby brother, and made her way
upstairs again and burst into the bed
room. BY this time, however the room
was one mass OF thick smoke, and tho
little girl hardly could breathe In IT, 10
say nothing Of finding the bed whore
her brother lay crying. But she man.
aged 10 get to him and 20 pick him up
IN her arms, after which she staggered
with him through the smoke to the
door, through II and down the stairs
making pretty hard work Of IL, how
ever, as the baby.hoy was heavy ana
about all she could manage.
by this time the neighbors, who had
noticed the fire had come to the rescue
and they took charge Of the small hero.
Inc and her brother, set about check.
ing the fire and sent for the Smiths
The father arrived I'm time TO helm In
the work Of saving the house. and he
says that when he went up to the bed
room In which his children had been
asleep. the smoke was so thick that
he could only guess where to throw
water
Lizzie Smiths mother says "Shc was
as black as little SSecp. bless her. ana
after the excitement was nh over. sh.
broke down and had a good cry
This little girl has received compll-
mcntS upon her bravery from an over
the country but what has pleased her
most Is the handsome doll with which
the kettering ilromcn presented her
10 mark their admiration of her bray. !
cry The picture shows her with II I'm |
her arms,