The evening world., 1904-06-17
GIRL THOUGHT DEAD
TELLS Of RESCUE
Twelve-Year-Old Clara Hartmann,
Picked Up for Dead, Towed Behind
Boat with Rope and Laid in Line
with Dead Bodies OH Pier.

| lost now. ] don't see how they could
have reached the shore. Mamma and
Margery and ] remained on the boat,
still holding hands, until the flames got
awfully close and hot. Everybody was
then jumping into the water, and, as
We didn't want TO get burned up, We
decided to jump. too.
There were so many In the water
near where he wanted to jump that we
had to walt a while before the space
was clear and then all jumped together,
still holding hands. But the moment
We got into the water wo had to let
!, 20 OF each other to do what we could
for ourselves.
i felt l wasn't going down and, see
ing Marsery and mamma near by, 1
tried to save them. for they were struK-
sins nwfully. Then a lot OF swimmers
3ot around us and we were separnted
heard Margery say again. God save
u.s. 'neh she gave gasp and sank out
OF sisht. / guess Margery's heart xavo
way Mamma didn't see after that.
While 7 was keeping afoat NM,
came near me, and I grabbed him
around the neck. He was awf,IIv
nean' ior he tried to push me away,
Out i just hung onto him as hard ss
could. He tried again to push m.
AWAY out I told him that I oould boId
on and we would soon be ashore hr,
ne pushed harder than ever ana r,,,
mead went under the water often me-
tcit hin sinking. and | let ro. and 7
must nave tainted. That was the ars,
'''''o 'hat ever tainted In my life
She Lost Consciouspe.s.
don't know what happened to m.
"iter tnat until l camo to life tbev
tell ME. in the Alexander avenu. go,
t'on-house. but must have floated on,
oeen picked up by boat. Thev ,oIa
me afterward that was towed b..,Ind
launch but didn't feel H.
When got out OF my faint 4, wa.
vi the afternoon. when Thought n wa.
yet morning. ] hoard men tramnIng on
the moor and felt was lying on ,o,,..
chihg very hard and that my head was
covered. Then there was talk about
taking the dead people away and thnn
l remembered the fire and the peop,e
drowning all around me.
II thought that was stm 4, ,,o
'S'' -'S SAVIHhCH got Slck-I had
ewallowed a whole lot of salty water
and did want Wwfully to get rid OF
that water. Then It began TO g,rsh out
OF my mouth and a woman said, This
little girl amt dead and she called
Doctor, doctor, quick. like that.
They pulled the cover or my head
and ] began 10 feel very much better
and the air came to me. 1t felt good,
too. They took me up from the floor
and put me on SOFT couch. and then
was taken to the hospital. where
they treated me nicely. / cried when
remembered mamma and Margery but
the hospital nurses told me they were
safe. but they haven't come home yet.
Willie Reitz, my cousin. found me In
the hospital and I was glad to see him
He is only thirteen, but he went around
TO all tie hospitals looking for me-
MRrgery and mamma, he told me when
the nurses let him come 20 my couch.
He hurried home and they brought me
clothes and took me here.
Pauline Jordan, of No. 81 Third ave-
nue. who plays with me. was In the
next cot to me In the hospital, and we
talked over the excursion and the Are
while we were getting better. | think
Pauline lost her mamma, too. and her
sister Catherine was dreadfully burned.
to-day. for It is all matted and can't be
but the hair will grow out again"