Show II IN HOPE OF SAVING MOTHER CHILD SEVERED HAND OF PINIONED SIRE GEORGIA GIRL PROVES A HEROINE Tragic Ordeal of Little Ada Price Unscathed by the Tornado That Wrecked Her Home and How She Met the Command of Her Imprisoned Impris-oned Father by Bravely Swinging the Rescue Ax I N GAAII alone In the darkness stood Ada 30WDl n slip of n girl of 10 About bar cars shrieked the last blasts of the fastdying tornado which had left tverylhlng In ruins In Its twisting whirling way At her feet lay the ruins of what had been her pretty aomo only a few seconds before From beneath that shattered heap of hoards and bricks still wreathed In lust came a moan and a groan Next the shrill cry of a chlfd smote her Heart Not n soul stood near And then Ada Price know the truth beneath be-neath that ghastly pile lay burled her father her mother and her two little brothers And she was alone In tho darkness Wreck and ruin lay all about her There was no use crying for help help there was none Time nearest neighbors were some distance away and they too were having troubles of their own It was for Ada Price to do for herself and hers alone And before that dreadful night was over she was called upon to do something some-thing moro perhaps something that never a girl has been called upon to do before She had to cut oft her fathers fath-ers hand with an ax that he might beset be-set free The mother lay beneath the ruins tooIt was In tho hope of saving sav-ing her that thQ hand was sacrificed But all to no good Georgia never knew a worse tornado torna-do than that fatal one which swept down upon a doomed community recently re-cently without n word of warning It snuffed out 34 lives In tho twinkling of an eye It leveled houses and barns L a S µ yx f P f A > i 1 r r r i st X11 t Y j t t 1 v V f L > trr CUT OFF MY HAND YOU MUST DO ITI right and left and ruined hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of standing stand-ing crops Whole Family Buried Under Wreckage of Their Home When tho cyclone broke tho home of Mimic Price lay right In the teeth of tho fury of tho elements The family fam-ily of live wen all > sound asleep Mimic Price bin wife Ada the daughter daugh-ter and the two little Price boys At I the first sweep of thu blast the Price borne caved In like it house of cards burying the family under the ruin of beams and hoards In some wondrous way Ada was spared the fate of tilt rest ivf the faintly fain-tly she was not pinned beiiftath the wreck but tuuuaged to work her way apt Into the ilr unhurt tries and groans came from under the mass of wreckage which had been her home but n maute btfi > ri > It was so dark that ho frinhuiii l girl could an Dotiing bin all tin inn she could hear HIDSI < 11 h tin in Ip I from thut tin Imid Ui t rm i i alll iln vnid Half I l 1L i I1 i n rim PrlU found I tho woodpile I In the darkness dark-ness She know an ax was there Down on her hands and knees she went feeling this way and that for tho tool she know she must have to chop out her father and her mother and her two little brothers Thtm she got a lantern from the ruins of tho woodshedIt had not been broken and lighted It Jack to the wreck of her homo she went guided by the moans of her father and the screams of her little brothers There was no one else to help Bravely the lono girl net nt her task She started chopping nearest the cries of her brothers all tho tlmq fearful fear-ful that a false stroke might end their sufferings But she kept her wits and her strength and finally thoie was a hole just big enough to pull out the little fellows badly bruised but not seriously Injured Finally Chopped Her Way To the Side of Her Father Her father was buried more deeply In tho wreck For an hour Ada Price tolled on getting nearer and nearer to where ho lay One by one she loosened loos-ened the timbers that pinned him down chopping away at each with nil the Bklll that love could conjure At length she got down to him The last timber was chopped away Can yon get out now father she linked of tho groaning man beneath her All tho timbers are chopped through Poor Price made an effort to lift himself It was no UBea huge stone was pinning him down by the hand he could not move With all her fast ebbing strength the anguished girl sought to push the stone away and rQ letise her father Hut her efforts II are futile Site failed to budge It stnimjlo as she might against Its superior weight Where Is mother gapped the father It I havent heard her at all an swered Ada She must be down thorn souittwlioru Then you must set are out shell die If I cant g et to her soon said Price PriceHow How answered Ada Cut off my hand begged her father I cant oh I cant cried tin girl If you dont Maid her father briar ly then your mothers life will In ou your heart This view of It hadnt struck the poor girl Perhaps she could gem i her mother out alone But there un no I cries to guide Ijeu It Mi Jni vaster vas-ter Ic I avid it nimbi h iv u 1 i ut OIK P Yoi mast do it 11 I 11 f I T J tj y 1 N u ri Q t 4 z1Yr 1 t i r n J a I G mow Oec I f I iii i l I a s > In i HEROIC LITTLE ADA PRICE From a Photograph I pends upon It every second counts now Nerved to Strike by the Thought of Mothers Danger I cant do It 1 wont do It was the girls reply Then I order you to do It said her father If you disobey me now and let your mother die then you must take the consequences And be quick about ItI To this there was no answer Ada Price knew that she must Without a tremor she lifted the ax and brought It down with one swift sharp blow The mangled hand was left under the stone and slowly the Injured father tottered out of his prison minus his left hand Quickly the girl tore apiece a-piece of sheeting Into strips and bound up the stump of her fathers bleeding forearm as best she could Faint and weak still the mans Indomitable courage cour-age kept up and with his daughter they worked at limo wreckage until they came upon Mrs Price i But their mutual sacrifice had been In vain The wife and mother lay cold In death She had evidently died of her hurts even before the little boys had been taken out by their devoted sister Then Ada took her father to tho nearest physician to have his handless arm properly treated I Weak to the point of collapse completely com-pletely overcome with grief at the death of the mother She adored Ada Price kept up until the last detail was done by the doctors Even then there could be no lotup There were the two motherless little boys to bo cared for now and that duty fell upon the frail shoulders of that brave little I daughter of the house Not a thing I was left undone Everyone who knows pretty Ada Price Is loud in her praises But Ada is very modest through It all I dont see why people are making so much fuss ovor what I did said I Ada to a correspondent of the New York World I was the only ono not pinned down by the wreckage of our I house and I had to get to work It was too far to the neighbors for mo to i go and get help and I was afraid to 1 stay out in the dark by myself I i I was waked by tile crash of tile 1 house as It fell In I dont see how any of us were alive when the roof dropped i In on us Anyway It wasnt so hard I for me to get out but when I began to look for my mother and father and j my brothers I soon found they hadnt I been as lucky as L I Little Heroine Toiled Hard Without a Thought of Self Then I heard some low crying and then tho voice of my father crying out When I managed to get near enough to talk to him he told mo to got tho ax and try to chop them out I went to the woodpile oh it was an awful long way or It seemed so for It was mighty dark and the wind was blowIng blow-Ing hard and I got tho ax Then 1 I came back to the house and found n lantern I lighted It and put It whore the light fell upon time ruins of the house I started at tho best spot and began be-gan to cut away tho fallen timbers I never worked so hard In all my llfq and I thought I should never get through At last however I found that 1 was malting good headway and that encouraged me My father kept tnlklug to me and cheering mo up I though ho was suffering horribly at tho time and i kept cutting In half an Tiour I got enough of tho tlinbers cuV and out of the way to get my to brothers out and thin I began work on gettlug out my father That was the hardest part When he found out that I couldnt get the mina oft his hand ho told mo to cut it off I toll 1irt i I utnilil nut do If md begged dim tn 1 t l Ill fio IlIr > flip 11 4hhnv but IK t utr id mild her was suffer fag i it ind W ° got to mamma we found that It was all useless anyway she had been hurt by the roof when It fell In She lad died even before I got the children outAnd And through It all Ada Price hadnt fainted or given up or sat down to cryshe was just a plucky little girl who did what she could for those she loved |