THE BRAVEST DEED.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 3

THE BRAVEST DEED.

The exciting scene enacted aL the biirninii: of an hotel at Ahoravon tho oil,ci day, when a domestic servant, risked her own life and mot iviih severe iniuries in .-avmc; a, bubv fi.au a terrible ih alii, recalls a Mmihii Inn far more ira-ic ,-a-e whicli stilled all thinlami i„ pay ami adniirai ion ~omtl-i.-!i rsr!i;ini;i-i. ••'•"•'■••■

The heroine of tilts l.ilier episode v,as .-mo Alice Avers She w;i, employed a- s,.rvaui lo a .Mr ( ha,oiler, who kep| an oi! ami color shop in the barolioh. fire broke out ai dead of ni-hi. and in a leu minuies rhe lower pari ol ihe house was a. mas, of flames. Mr and .Mis Chandler and ' iheii children were suffocal.-d and burned lo deaiii in liieir bedroom, ,i!lhou;j;!i Alice ran down and i lied in n.iise ihem. iler rooin was above theirs, on the third iloor. In 11, besides hcrscii, were ihe fhree oilier Chandler children, ihe eldest iillle more than a baby. The lirave ojr! firs! threw out, a bed, then dropped the little ones on it one at a time, alihouel, she herself was huriiiiio all the while. Then she jumped herself.

Next d:iv she lav dvinu: in Cuv's llosinlal, and a naiioii mourned. (,liieen Victoria .nil one of her l-idje-iii-wail-iiie .specially to im.inre afi.-r her. Ilul-h-iiiis iii-i,. issu.-d hourly, as from Iho dciiih-ehainber of a monarch. After death the llc.sj.il ill authorities refused 10 allow her body lo he placed in i Inordinary niorluary, but set aside a special room for il. uhhb v. as soon ail parts of i!-,- kiiiyalom, .-siimalcd n, he worth nearly fllll)!)! •fVelre lireme, bore h.-r io her ;.,,,,ye. and more oral' in IslewoVi'ii (Vm'terV. •where'"!. a iii-i".iiiiiccut obclH, envied by public Mibseriplioii, iii memory of --ihe bravest deed lhal. ever was done.'-