Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-01
IR0QU0iS FIRE HEROINE
How Carrie Anderson Saved
 Many at Chicago Disaster.
PRISONER ON A HIGH ESCAPE.


 the Flames, Which Badly Burned
 Her. She Guided n Ladder Across
 Which Many Scrambled to Safety.
 Rescued With Others.
 At the Samaritan hospital in Chicago, her head and left side swathed in bandages, lay Carrie Anderson, the child whose deed of heroism at the Iroquois fire was recounted in brief during the coroner's inquest, but whose name was never learned until the other day. says the Chicago Record-H Herald.
 Through the steadfast bravery of this fourteen-year-oldg girl at least fifty lives were saved on the fatal afternoon. She it was who, despite the fact that her entire left side was being Tapped by flame, caught the end of the ladder thrown across the alley from the Northwestern University building and guided it to a firm resting place on the fire escape of the second balcony
 Across this ladder many men, women and children scrambled to safety from the inferno behind them.
 |, She was in the balcony with her mother, who was employed as cleaner at the theater.. and while she escaped ! her mother pcrished The child does l not know yet tbat her mother is dead ] and thinks that she is merely badly in- 1 jured. e.as f. -> .N -s@
 q was in the highest balcony with ! mamma she said in accounting her 1 experiences to a reporter. and when the fire began jumped up and tried to ! pull mamma with me. We got to the i fire escape all right. and got out on it. had hold of mamma. but she did not reach the open air out of all the smoke {, with me, and saw her kind of fall back. I know she got hurt, because i she has not been to sec me.
 II fell on tho escape, and my foot 7 s,ot caught so that I could not stand up I was lying on my right side, and the i fire burned me dreadful on my left arm and leg and head. but was too 1 excited to think much of that then.
 There were only two other, people on ! the escape with me One was a woman l; down below me who couldn't do any 1 thing, and perhaps she was dead. Just 1 beside me was q man. He kept moan 1 ing all the time. s-.
 '''You don't realize what this is, little | girl he said to me. and then few
 minutes after he began groaning and
 crying. to God. That was when I was i burning and he was too. All this time. i I had my foot SC tightly caught 1 couldn't move to get farther away from ! the wicked fire; but anyway, there was 1 10 place to go unless jumped down. : into the alley, where I could see people 1 away below me. Then the man lay. very still and the fire was worse owe; : us.
 Then all of a sudden I saw laddel i in the air coming from the building soi' tposite3us. l don't know how I caugle i the ladder because l can't remembe., | anything clearly after that; everything
 hurt so. But I caught it some way
 and then men came across to me and
 pulled me out from where my foot was
 fastened. They dragged me across the
 ladder and whole lot of people canlh
 after us.'
 After her splendid deed Carrie was { taken into the Northwestern building i and given temporary relief Then she 1 was hurried to the Samaritan hospital
 Carries family is Norwegian, botl
 her father Axel Anderson, a briclSlayol
 and her grandmother having been born
 in Christiania. Her mother was also j Norwegian girl, who came to Americ:f
 from her native land to marry your
 Anderson, who had reached Chica,
 three years previous to her arrival
 1885 and who had been her sweetheh
 in Norway. The little heroine her.4
 was born in Chicago and lives with l.
 grandmother and father in that city