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Show Doctor Maltes Heroic Rescue Of Tiny Girl R.' C Robinson AVades Into Raging; Torrent When. He Hem Faint Cry of , , - Victim A faint scream, audible abov the. roar of th torrent, saved th life of Barbara Chrietenoen, 1-year-old daughter of Arnold Chrls-teneen. Chrls-teneen. who wss killed '. Monday rescuing his wlf from th path of th flood. Many atoriee hav been told of the heroism displayed during the flood, but many more ar waiting to be told. Dr. R. C. Robinson, who saved tha little Chrlatensen girt, was found yesterday, - his feet torn and slashes, hie hsnds bandaged ban-daged from cine received In big herola feet lr ssvlng the girl. Dr." Foblneon was standing-"! hlj front porch, a short distance from th rasing torrent, when ho heard screams com from th direction di-rection of th watr. H dismissed dis-missed them without a thought, j thinking they were only th cry of I merrymakers at Laroon, short distance away. Without much attention at-tention he went back Into the house and eat down to dinner, but the screams persisted snd ola-turbed ola-turbed him. Agala h wnt to th front porch and heard tha screams more plainly. JUMPS INTO STREAM. ' i Just th (lay before ho had gotten got-ten from his lck bed from a case ... K determined to act he Jumped-Into th raging stream. Jabbing his teet Into a barbed wire fence, h hstd himself from going down stream with th tor-Vent. tor-Vent. Stoves, tenia hug tre flaehed by him In th dark, only Illuminated now and . then, by th treaka ot lightning. Led to the center of th flood, which was too yards wide, by he .cream, ha found an old woman. Mra, fl. O. Pebley. hanging to a log. Ho grabbed her by the hair and by means of -lightning flsshee he saw his way to work back lo th dg of th watr. 1 ' Nearly drowned nd with legs bant double with th flood, th woman managed to gaap, "A baby I In ther omewhere." Again Dr. Robinson plunged Into the ewlrllng wlr.- Just below him 10 feet thg flood swspt through a bug viaduct under the Bamberger track. . Robinson worked hie way back through the water. No aound could b heard but ths roar of tho water. 'An occasional flaah of lightning Illuminated -th water for a moment. In tht mas of dabrls little could be eeen. Then. suddenly. Dr. Robuwon heard a faint cry. HEARS PAINT CRY.' "Take m! Tak me! - Com get rae!" - " . The cry wes hardly loud enough to lesd to discovery- out It kpt Dr. Robinson on th hunt. Finally, after ten minute search, hs reached Into a pll of debrl and when th lightning . ftahd saw the face of tha girl protruding through tho debris. . Fearing hie trength ebbing, he waited, knowing that at any mla-nta mla-nta th debrl. In which hs was entangled might glv way and hurl him Into th osvem belew. Then he made one last effort and. etUI hanging to th barbed wire feno. worked hi way toward th dg. During hi progress he shouted to hi brother for aid. Hie brother, hearing th calL waded In and finding Tr. Robins) praotloaUy exhausted, pulled both the girl and the man to th edge ot th pool. 1 don't know how I ever found tho little girl," Dr. Robinson said today. "It waa miraculpos cap." - - - . |