Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Saved by a Parasol. [ARTICLE]

Saved by a Parasol.

A little colored girl, 9 years of age, daughter of Samuel Phelps, was passing over near the railroad bridge which spans Fishing creek near the depot, with a large parasol stretched over her head, when the blast struck her, and in a moment she was swept oft the bridge and was falling to the earth sixty feet below. A lady who saw the affair from' a short distance off, says that she went down hanging to the umbrella which was stretched overhead like a parachute. The handle broke just before she reached the ground. Several persons went to her assistance immediately, and were doubtless surprised to find her alive. She was not only alive, but comparatively little injured, as the doctor who attended her told the writer that her worst injury was a severe sprain of one of her ankles, with possibly a fracture of one of , the smaller bones. Her preservation from death is probably owing to the fact that the parasol acted as a parachute, and that she fell on a haw-bush three or four feet high.— Milledgeville (La.) Reporter.