Show YOUNG BRIDE RISKS I LIFE FOR HUSBAND MRS PETRA LIEN RIDES THREE MILES IN NIGHT ROBE TO SUMMON AID BITTER COLD HAS NO TERROR Woman First Carries Injured Man from Burning HomeIs Now Near Death Because of Her Awful Experience Harrold S DSOllth Dakotas now heroine Is Mrs Pet Ill llen tho bravest girl in the west who Is hovering between be-tween lIfo and death at tho homo of her sister Mrs John Klsenmn 1 of this place and tho title of heroine will ro main with her whether sho lives or dies dIesPetra Petra Peterson aged 23 married Andrew 11 Lien thicg months ago and their honeymoon was scaicely over when the tragedy occurred They lived on a farm ten miles south of this town and their homo was a favorite place for the young people of tho community com-munity to gather When tho young couple ictlred a few nights ago tho fire In tho sitting room abovo was quite low About midnight tho husband hus-band arose to look after It Fearing It would go out ho throw In somo kerosene kero-sene or possibly as some of tho neighbors think gasoline An explosion explos-ion followed enveloping tho man inflames In-flames Ho was terribly burned his thin attire being consumed Instantly His screams brought his young wlfo from her bed With a skirt which she had grabbed as sho ran sho fought tho flames and managed to drag her husbtand from their midst Tho whole room was ablaze and she realized tho uselessness useless-ness of trying to extinguish the fast growing fire Although much smaller than her sturdy husband sho practically car led him herself barefoot through tho snow to the burn Sho laid his quivering quiver-ing form In a pile of hay and roturned to tho house for clothing Tho wholo building was In lames She could neither enter to get wearing apparel nor to telephone to neighbors She knew she must herself go for aid Returning to the barn tho bravo young brldo took the scorched skirt with which she had fought tho flames and wrapping It about her now semiconscious semi-conscious husband prepared for tho terrible ordeal of riding through snow and bitter cold wind almost nude A bridle was hastily put on their ffcctcst horse but no saddle the wife reallz Inn that the warm body of the anImal must be relied upon to supply needed heat to keep her own tender flesh from freezing And so she began tho notable rldo which will be related for curs to conic to the children of this rommuulty and state Through tho dark moonless night she urged her horse her stiffening fingers nuil limbs from tho biting cold being forgotten In the mental anxiety for her suffering husband rho thin light gown offered but meager protcc Ion from the nearzero weather nnd the snow Hung from tho hoofs of tho running horse struck her continually But sho conquered where failure would have been moro logical Three miles were traversed and a wall from the freezing wife brought quick response re-sponse from neighbors When helped from her horso she seemed on tho verge of collapse but rallied quickly and insisted upon going back to herE 4l I i J I E = = r < She Rode at Furious Pace for a Doctor husband at onco She would wait for nothing but to bo hurriedly dressed In clothing of her neighbor and then astride her panting horso oho again covered the three miles at top speed Friends came and medical aid All effort to save tho life of Mr Lien wan futile however and ho died at daybreak day-break In tho barn where his young wife had placed him Knowledge of his death was the signal for Mrs Lien to collapse and sho was taken to the homo of a friend Burned and frozen and suffering ° from nervous shock the bereaved brldo Is still In a precarious state at her sisters homo here Her hands and face were scorched terribly by tho fire Their home and all Its contents were destroyed The funeral of Mr Lion was ono of the largest ever held In this Hughes county |