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Show A LITTLE HERO. A Lad In Kills Lost Ills Life While Trying to Save His Tviiclier. The little district schoolhouse atCoop-eiTille. atCoop-eiTille. Livingston county, was burned down Monday. The teacher, Miss Mabel Porter, aged 20, and a little hero scholar lost their lives. Two hours after school opened Miss Porter detected t he smell of smoke. She opened a door leading into a woodshed to discover if anything was on fire. As she did so the flames burst into the schoolroom and enveloped the teacher. Miss Porter screamed and fell forward into the fire. Immediately the schoolroom was in an uproar. There were 22 scholars, most of whom are small children. Two brothers MeJvin and Charles Chambers, Cham-bers, aged 14 and 10 years displayed remarkable re-markable presence of mind. To their rhard work at the riftk of their own lives is given the credit of saving most of the imperiled pupils. There was but one door that Opening into the burning shed by which entrance to the school-house school-house was afforded. The brothers, seeing see-ing escape cut off in that direction, tore a seat loose from the floor, placed it under un-der a window, smashed the glass and managed to lift the children through. Three girls fainted, and it was with difficulty dif-ficulty that they were dragged through the lii-tle window to a place of tutfmty. Four-year-old John Johnson, son of a farmer residing near by, was burned to death. He was the teacher's pet. When lie saw her fall forward into the fire, he ran to her side in a vain and futile effort to protect her from harm. So he died like a hero. When the ruins of the school-house school-house were searched, the charred bodies of the teacher and the noble little fellow were found side by side. The Chambers boys were both severely burned about the face and arms. The younger inhaled so much hot air that it is feared serious injury may result. Rochester Special. |