Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Saved from Drowning. [ARTICLE]

Saved from Drowning.

The brave work of a miller in saving a little girl from drowning is described by the Ifidianapolis Journal. The millowner and his wife, it appears, had gone to the city, leaving an 8-year-old girl at home. With other children she went down to the mill to play, and by some accident fell into the sluice which feeds the turbine wheel. The head miller heard a scream, and not knowing \vhat had happened, applied a brake and stopped the machinery. Then he ran out, found the little girl just disappearing under the water, and in he went a*'ter her. Then he found himself in a hard place. The water was eight feet deep, and he was four feet oelow the top of the sluice, the sides of which were as smooth as a polished floor. The girl was unconscious. How was he to get' her out? It took one hand to hold her head above watrsv»nd the other to keep'himself from sinking. He mush-try to throw her out, and this, by a great effort, he did. But the rebound drove him under water and against the wheel, where lie was in great danger of being caught and held. He came up again, however, and now a new difficulty confronted him. How was he to get out himself? He sank to the bottom, gave an upward spring, and as he came up half-blinded, succeeded in catching the top of the sluice. Then, by the greatest exertions, he drew himself out. The girl was still unconscious, but by vigorous measures" was at last revived.