BRAVE TELEPHONE GIRL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7978, 8 December 1911, Page 10

BRAVE TELEPHONE GIRL

FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. . LONDON, October C. A wonderful story cf a girl’s bravery and utter forgetfulness of her own great danger came to light Ibis week in connection with the.-tfirihle dam catastrophe in'Pennsylvania some days “So, wiiea nearlv three hundred people were killed, The girl, Lina .Dinekey, a young telephone operator, was telephoned to by her lover, who'told her the dam was bursting, and besceched her to get to the mils. She at first thought he was joKiog, but, ■being convinced, she instantly made up her mind to stick to her post as long as possible and warn others by telephone. * in spite of the roar and tnunder oi approichins water-then, rushing down Chi Vallev-the gnl wor!fid the switch plugs, calling up as many people as she courd She also caused the .whistles iu the town to be blown and the bells to bo rung, thinking that this would bring the people into the streets to see the peril themselves in time to flee, imally her board failed to work. After her work of mercy was done Miss Bmck.ey fled up the 'hillside and was saved.