Show GAVE LIFE FOR OTHERS woman warned residents of danger from flood but lost her own life denver colo to mrs J booke telephone operator who lost her life in the flood at folsom many owe their escape in face of certain death this brave woman stayed in a doomed building until every method of escape was cut off by water sending alarms to every resident who had a telephone it was learned on saturday that mrs rooke had received ample warn ing to allow her to escape A resident of hilla telephoned to her at 11 clock thursday night that she would be flooded out within an hour it she did pot leave instead of heeding the warning the little woman set herself to the task of saving others number after number on the telephone ex change was called up with the brief warning pick up and leave at once a flood is coiling down the alley over forty residents seen saturday morning said that they had received the warning from the central office and had at once prepared for the terrible emergency |