HEROISM IN HUMBLE LIFE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXI, Issue 6365, 28 March 1889, Page 3

HEROISM IN HUMBLE LIFE.

The annals of- heroism furnish few . braver deeds' than that, which has just '. set the little servant maid, Minnie Murrell, in the full blaze of recognition the u story 6f ! how she saved/three youngchQ- / fire reads like a romance. ; of /the noblest type, which indeed it- manifestly is. Let no one after this say that. chivalry, aud devotion are dead in the. humbler classes, . or that those qualities exist only on the battlefield, In the house of Mr luglis, of High street; Dorking, a gas explosion took place.. The family had retired to rest, and thcvshop below, with all its contents, was speedily aflame. Minnie Mur reU, who ia only fifteen years of_ age, 'rushed to the room where the children nweresleeping, and secured the baby in a ' Wankei ;i Mr3 Ingles snatched the jufantfromlier, arid escaped: with it into the street. But minnie, nothing daunted, returned for two children aged three and five respectively, and with one under each arm she bravely ■ descended to the first storey; but she could go no further, for the stairs were all on fire, rnd burning fiercely. Going to the window of the front rooir she flung it open, and caUhg out to spectators" Catch the children," slie dropped them safely. into friendly hands., Mr much scorched, had now come to the gallant gnis assistance, ?-\dnot a moment too soon ; for, her duty being accomplished, nature g£ve way;- and she would have leaped frbm ; the whdow vnder the stress of her hysterical feelings. Fortunately, her maater caught her in time, and' lowered her carefully to those below, saving him- "> self afterwards. Minnie who is a native of the little fishing; village of Leigh, near South endynow belongs to all;Eugland ; .- for her deed will be' remembered with

tose of Alice Ayres; Grace Darling and others-who haYeshqd-immortal her sex; ..She has deservedly received a testimonialfromthe Royal Society for the Protection of Life from !W together with a donation of £5.