A BRAVE DUTCH GIRL.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 14 February 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BRAVE DUTCH GIRL.

A Natal paper contains an oooount of heroic deeds performed by a Dutch girl .n tho district of Georgo, whioh was lately visited by heavy storms of thundor and lightning. The family oonsisted of a Dutch farmer, his wife, son, and daughter, named Beausao. The house was solitary, and in a wild and isolated position. It was on tho summit of a hill overhanging the sea shore. Anything more lonely than the dwollinghouso of the Beausao family it it next to impossible to imagine. The family consisted of the couple, their son, who is a young man, and their daughter who is abont 18 years of age. The family had retired to rest, Mr. and Mrs. Beausao, both aged and infirm, sleeping in a room down ¦tairs. The bed chamber of the son was npstairs. In the middle of the night a stroke of lightning struok the house, followed by a deafening peal of thunder. The house was immediately in a blaze, oooh occupant being for somo time rendered insensible by tho oroe of the shook. No aid was near. Tne first to rcoover consciousness was tho young lady, who not hesitating a moment, dashed through ths weakest part of the fire, and up the flight of stairs to her brother's room, and found the nnfortunato young man quite dead and fearfully mangled and shattered by the eleotrio itroko. Miss Beausao carried her brother's body down stairs, and resoued it from perishing in the flames. She then managed to get her father and mother into an outhouse some little distanoe from tho burning bnilding, into which she again rushed - and obtained two beds that were handy, and whioh she threw out of the window; but oonld save not an artiole of clothing, as the flames had by that time a strong hold of overy part of the house. The remainder of the night was passed in the outhouse, with the charred and mangled corpse of the son and brothor in the same place. It is to the oonrago of the youn a lady that the old couple owe thoir livos. Had she given way under tho Bhook on discovering tho house in flames and her brother a oorpso, everyone must have fallen viotims to the fi'fl, and an entire family been blottod out of existence in a single night.