Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — Two Girls Save Seven Lives. [ARTICLE]

Two Girls Save Seven Lives.

Montreal (Canada) Witness. ; On Friday evening seven young men, who live several miles down tbe Ottawa river, started to skate to Gatineau Point for the purpose of attending a special service, which was being held in the church at that plaee, for young men. When they arrived opposite Kettle Bland they happened to strike a piece of bad ice, and tive of the party fell through. The other two did the best they could to rescue their , comrades, but, after they had got several of them oiit, The ice on which they were standing gave way, and they 1 themselves got into the water. Two Misses O’Neil, daughters of Super-

intendent O’Neil, of the Dominion Police, witnessed the aooident from their house on Kettle Island, and witji Seat presence of mind these two young lies ran lor their father’s boat, which they pushed across the Ice until they came to the brokeu spot, when they launched it and succeeded in rescuing the young men who were in the water. They were not a moment too soon, for ope of the young men was utterly exhausted, and was taken out pf the water senseless.