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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 32, 8 December 1893, Page 20

Tbe following beautiful instance of a providential escape from doath occurred in Austria :— Two brothers, aged nine and fcur respectively, werp playing towards middiy at a biook close to a mill. Tbe em til brother h .ppened to fall into (he water. Irnineliately the elder brother, well aware of the danger, jumped in after him. The yi/uotjei bro her wia m the grmt-at danger of being earned away by thecurren', au.i if not saved th Te and 'ben, he would be torn to pi Cdsby the wheel, meeting wi b » cjrtai . and cruel death. The eldir b^otbe'. aided »>y the currea', w»s lucky enough to get hold of the young, r oue ; alrea iv hn had t rasp d with one arm his half-dead brother, but, as seem-il c rtaiu on'y to die with him. With a fear* ful increasing rapidity both brothers were cr.iud by ths current to he revolving wheel, and noboiy 6e mud to hear the shouting and screaming of the elder bjy. A!re*dy the two brothers were touching the wheel, and the elder ona was caught in it, when, bebold, at the las' critical moment tho whe 1 suddenly stops — -'the Angelus bell is tolling "— a-id barehea lan I praying appears the miller who, at the sou.id of the Angelus bel 1 , ha<l stopped the wheel and mill for the usual time of prater au 1 ihe mid'la> rest, aad both the brother* weie saved 1