Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-09 | Page 3 | A Brave School Teacher

A n SCHOOL i A Nebraska Girl Her nit the Harrison Neb Seb April 8 Lizzie E H Cottman teacher In the district chool near here aone facing a torrent of or water carrying trees dead animals and all tim the debris borne on iv a n Hood flood today rescued the pupils of or o her school and preserved the building Itself what teemed seemed Inevitable destruction Without warning tho White river overflowed Its banks surrounded I tho the school building and threatened to carry It away Miss Cottman waded In water waler r waist deep to 10 where a horse hOrle was wai pick etell some distance away Hemming with the animal she harnessed the horse horie to the building which 1 Was a shaken from froni Its foundations owl nd the horses horo strength held the tho th schoolhouse In place plate Help came cam from the tho neigh neighbors bors hors in of ot nn an hour