Show 1 A PLUCKY LITTLE HEROINE e I 1 saves throe three children from sum arn 1 ing up ancar prestos blaho jan 2911 1894 EDITOR JOURN JOURNAL A L I 1 tit thought 0 i few lines froni from tin this s town 1 a 11 wo would old be of interest to some of your readers we are havin having some sickness here at present ahro br 0 wm win darley has been very sick with of the bowels but under tinder the treatment of dr parkinson of logan 0 he is getting ettin along nicely dro bro Na hull porter has also had spells of late lie ile goes dizzy ard is unconscious for hours at a time but seoul seems to eumer bufler very little or no pain sister sarah davis is also very sick I 1 understand and is very low she wa was staken taken with convulsions convulsion sand and fears are entertained for her recovery last night 0 about eleven 0 clock or a short time after all of preston or the greater part of them were absent from their hotness there bein being 0 three dances running 0 that eer ening two in preston and one in fairview the alarm of fire k bounded toun dud and as a great many had left their children ildren cli at home a general 0 stampede took place teams were hitched up tip in a hurry and aw away ay thoy went but it bassoon was soon discovered that it was bro lorenzo martins house that was on oil fire this is the man that lost his bis wife last fall and was left with five little children As gearas near as I 1 can learn it happened like this bro rozel taylora taylor a neighbor C of his wanted him to 0 go with him and his wife to fairview dance and as he had not been out much since losing his wife they thought it would so do him good to go with them iho bro taylor took fr two 1 0 0 of f ilia his children over to brother martins martinis to stay with ith his children while they attended the dance I 1 will here state stat e that two of mr martins children cli ildren are living with his relatives in grantsville Grants ville tooele thoele co utah so he has only three with him here and he took the oldest one a boy with him to the dance this left two of his and two of taylora children to sleep at mr ir mari r tins house while they attended the party the oldest girl is ten years yeara old and the youngest is r five ive years of age after mr martin had left the house he saw his big deg was following him so BO he went bachand back and asked not ent toury my with them for company and they said they would so ho let the dog in the house and i started oft off lie ile said lie he did not feel like guing going 0 and leaving them even then he cautioned tile the little ittle ones about tile the lampane to be careful about the fire zo ea no accident could occur the little girl says save they went to bed bcd about 1030 and were very careful q to put out the ire fire and lamp and soon went to sleep the first she knew after this nas as the do dog 0 they left in tho the kitchen made an all awful noise aud and woke her up and she says pays they were nearly i suffocated with smoke she thought that her father had corna coma home a and nd was kindling a fire and causing the dog to make such buch a noise and she says the bed clothes were ivere 0 getting etting tr so hot it nearly roasted the them M silo she I 1 lumped jumped out of bed went to the kitchen door and opened it and the smoke nearly clicked choked her when she opened the door tile the old cat jumped out but the poor dog never made any more noise she then turned her attention to getting out the little lines which were all asleep she lle dragged her little brat brother her out of bed and out through 0 the front door and then went back b ick after the others while she was getting gelling out the other children her little brother brothel went back to bed again and said he would not go out in the eold cold so she had to pull him out again then the plucky little girl went back in the room again and got one of her fathers coats and two shawls and then started with the life three little little ones for the nearest neighbor which was over a quarter of a mile distant just irna imagine 1 I ino these little childen cli ilden barefooted and in their night flight clothen cloth only and scarcely any track to walk in going that distance die tanca tance and the night very cold but they made it the oldest t 0 girl took one little one under tinder ca each ell arm and carried them while tile fourth one ran ahead they the froze a tile theia feet a little but not the children had reached brother porters residence before illy any of the people had time to come from the darce dance and when the dirtat teanis teams reached tho the ire fire not a soul was to be been and of course everybody thought tile whole family had haa perished peris hid in the flandes fl alDeS for they lid not know that brother martin had gone to fairview N when bell he and mr taylor and wife arrived they did ill not know anything about the children and what had become of them until mr boyd porter canic came and told them thein where they were it was a very cry sad accident and a complete burn urn i up or brot I 1 let is proper property tr nothing was saved except tile hec CO oaland shawls that tile little pirl firl got to put on oil tile tho children however tiina to much aa long as tho the ere ivied already tile the good people of preston and whitney are blocking here with clothing b and bedling bedding of til all de our worthy bi bishop 1101 W 0 parkinson was the first one on docket the next morning with boino clothes for tile the little cinc end re ia i already a committee ap pointed to gather material tl together to build another hou house sefor for brother martin this is a hard lick on him kosir losius his hia wire last fall nid now having baving his liou e and everything in it burned up respectfully JOHN 14 |