FORTY FAMILIES SAVED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 207, 1 September 1908, Page 4

FORTY FAMILIES SAVED.

THE CLOUD-BURST AT POLSOM

A WOMAN'S SELF-SACRIFICE,

Tjp»ess association 1 Mrs Sarah Rook, the telephone operator at Polsom, on learning of. the approach of the wall of water, telephoned to forty subscribers, enabling them to save themselves and families The bureau was wrecked, and Mrs Rooks mutilated body was found twelve miles distant, with the telephone receiver still fixed to her head

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