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Show HEROIC WOMAN MEETS DEATH. School Teacher Fatally Injured While Trying to Protect Pupils. Cheyenne, Wyo. Bertha Rheinhart, a school teacher, died Friday from burns received in rescuing her pupils from a prairie fire. Miss Rheinhart taught a country school near Horse Creek. Thursday a cloud of smoke, pierced through with tongues of flame, heralded the approach of the fire. The teacher realized that the blaze, driven by a high wind, was rushing straight lor the schoolhouse. Sending the children to a rocky hill nearby. Miss Rheinhart went out to fight the flames in frontier fashion, ny burning off a strip of prairie in front of the main fire. She succeeded thus in diverting the blaze from the echoolhouse. In the meantime, however, how-ever, several of the children had left the hill and ran Into the path of the fire. While running to rescue them Miss Rheinhart was caught and received re-ceived her death. The fire then swerved from its course just in time to spare the children. |