Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — A Brave Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Boy.

A correspondent of the Boston Globe, in giving an account of the frightful railroad accident in New Brunswick, says: “ Amidst all this reign of terror, however, stood one figure, cool, calm and heroic, intent only upon one object, to aid his friends if possible; and who was this who stood upon the brink of eternity holding his life in his hands and ready to give up even that to save his friends from destruction? Not a strong man, not a resolute woman, but a puny boy, whose heroic soul only wished that his frail frame was of herculean dimensions that he might render more effectual aid to those he loved so well. The Hames were spreading rapidly, licking up with eager tongues all that came in their way, Sparing neither animate nor inanimate objects, and seeming only longing to add human life to the list of their victims. In the face of all this horror of chaotic destruction, hissing steam and crackling flames, this brave boy rushed into the ruin again and again, until, in his heroic disregard of personal safety, he fell a victim to the horrid Moloch of destruction and expired, his lips murmuring a last prayer that'those whose lives he had lost his own. to save might be rescued. Poets have sung the heroism of Casablanca and other boy heroes, bat who shall record the bravery of this one? Pitv that his name was unknown, for who would not gladlv rtodtodohimhonorr “Do you see what a fine country residence I have here, PatF’ “Ah, yis. sir; Ido that Here could I live forever, and die in peace," —Rochester Express.