A NOBLE DEATH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16071, 12 May 1914, Page 5

A NOBLE DEATH.

AGED WOMAN'S HEROISM. ROME, May 11. Rescuers found an octogenarian woman, the sole survivor of a family of 13, at Bongiardo. Notwithstanding the soldiers' advice she insisted on Te-entering the tottering home in search of relatives, and returned, bearing a baby still alive. She reentered, saying it was worth risking an old t life, if only to rescue her grand-children: A crash of falling masonry almost immediately entombed her. a:k PATHOS AND TRAGEDY. if--50 INCIDENTS OF THE CATASTROPHE, Is ROME, May 11. ig (Received May 12, at 0.30 a.m.) A young mail, who was severely injured ; h at Santa Maria Vergine, clung to his wife's ;h dead body, and was only separated when fainting from loss of blood. A flagie woman, entrusted with signalling on the railway near Acireale, was severely injured in by the fall of the signal-box. Two sons id obeyed her injunctions, and rushed along the metals shouting and waving flags. They stopped two trains' and averted disaster. An old parish priest at Linera was seen sitting with bowed head outside the ruins of his domicile, bereft of his entire flock. An aged grandh.vber, searching for his wife and two grand-children aged two and five years, found, thd three clinging together as if asleep, the children held tight'ly in the grandmother's arms. They J were all dead.