The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-04-02
GIRL IS A HEROINE
Hit by Shell While Carrying Wa
ter to Germans.
rWelve-YearOld IL Most Petted Girl
In Vienna - Thirsty Soldiers
kiss Child's Hands In
Gratitude.

Vienna.-The most pstted little girl
IN Vienna these days is twelveyear-old
Rosa Zenoch Of Ramienna Cora, resi-
dent pro tenn in a cot OF the general
hospital in the clinic Of Professor
Hohenegg. The child. who. for IL
days. carried water to thirsty German
soldiers in the trenches neal her home.
was wounded by a shrapnel shell
which tore away one of her feet. EN-.
peror Francis Joseph has sent her q
gold chain with a diamond pendant
forming his initials. Vienna sends
her fruits and dainties and flowers,
and many books of which she cannot
read a line. There are occasional gifts
of money, too, which the child's moth
er, who now lives with her in the hos
pital ward. takes thrifty care OF.
The mother, who speaks only Ru-
thenian. recently told a representative
of the Berliner Vossische Zeitung the
story Of her little girl.
Eve are poor farmer folk from the
ne~ighborhood of N~avaruska. We have
only n acre Of ground and a little
house. Now that, too, is gone; the
Russians burned it down and dragged
my husband away-God knows where.
Daily the soldiers marched past us.
We are poor and have little to lat.
But Joseph, u eldest, Joined the col
ors. and always, when the soldiers
knocked at the door and entered, Rosa
would ask. Is Joseph with them?'
The soldiers spoke only German cr
Hungarian, and she speaks only Ru- |
thenian. The soldiers were fearfully
hungry and thirsty. Finally Rosa
learned to understand the one German
question. 'Haben sic was zu trinken?'
CHave you anything to drink?). Ana
she learned the German sentence, :Ja,
wir haben,' eyes. we have.O AS long
as We had milk and bread we gave
them milk and bread. Then I had to
go to the well and lower the pail and
fetch water for the soldiers. Often
the soldiers marched past our house.
Then Rosa would say, Give me the
pail, and then she would run along
with the soldiers and give them'water.
"For days the soldiers had nothing
to drink. Whenever we went out OF the
house we could see them drinking out
of the swamp. for there are many
swamps and much sand in our country.
Then, for several days, no one came
there. But We heard the laundering
outside and Rose kept urging me-:
Mother. draw up a lot of water!' As
soon as the pail was filled she would
carry it out to the soldiers, who lay
in a ditch. The soldiers recognized
her"
Soldiers were good to me-" ex.
planned the little girl from her cot.
Yes, they petted and caressed her
and always begged her for more wa
ter said the old woman. And so she
travelled all day long from the we'll to
the soldiers and from the soldiers to
the we'll. l often looked to see If an
enemy was coming. But | never saw
an enemy.
FINALLY continued the old woman,
all the soldiers knew her. She was
all worn out from running her errands
and carrying water, and at night she
could not sleep so soundly, despite
the noise, which was worse at night
in the daytime. Neighbors came
INTO the hut and said that the cannon
could be heard much more plainly now
that the enemy must be quito
close. ! forbade Rosa t. go out; but
now and then a soldier would come to
u.s. and he could hardly speak for
thirst. Then | myself went out and
water; but Rosa runs much
and the soldiers all shouted
the moment they saw her, and they
kissed her hands and blessed her. And Z
whenever | said she must stay in the -;
she would say:
But maybe Joseph is among them
This went or till one morning when :
left the house and heard a sry be-.
IND me, and when | turned around |
Jaw Rosa falling. | lifted her I'D, and
'ay her foot dangling loosely. Then
carried her to the barracks where
wounded soldiers were. far away.
nd the nurses carried her on a wagon !
o the hospital at Megierow and took
ler foot off there. Then she was
here to Vienna, and | with her :
o take care of her. |