Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

RESCUED BY A BRAVE BOY.

He Climbs to the Second Story of a Burning House and Drops Three Children Out of the Window.

A frame tenement house in Newark, N. J., occupied by four colored families, was badly damaged by fire on Saturday, and three of the occupants were only saved by the heroism of a boy. Mrs. Jane Oliver is a widow with three small children. She occupied half of the second floor. Having finished up some work she locked the doors to keep her children in, and started out to deliver her work to customers.

At 1:30 George B. Hill, age seventeen, employed by a newsdealer, was passing the house when he heard screaming. Looking up he saw smoke issuing from the second story windows. The forms of two children could be seen at the closed windows on the second floor. Young Hill ran up to the house, and breaking in a window pane on the first floor to get a footing he managed to mount to the second story window, which he raised. The draft added new vigor to the fire, and the flames and smoke poured into the room where the children were.

A man who had been attracted by the cries ran under the window and the boy dropped two of the children into his arms. The boy heard a wail from the further end of the room and he ran through the smoke to a cot, where lay a three year-old child. Seizing the half unconscious child he reached the window and dropped it into friendly arms. Then he hung from the window sill and dropped to the ground.

By this time the fire had got great headway, having penetrated to other apartments. A few articles were saved by the tenants and the firemen, who reached the scene after the rescue, saved the house from total destruction. An adjoining new brick building was also partly destroyed, the total loss being about $2,500. While the engines were playing on the house the mother of the children returned from her errand and was told by a neighbor that her children had been burned to a crisp. The wretched mother swooned away. She learned the truth upon recovering consciousness. All her missing were burned up.

George B. Hill, the rescuer of the children, is the son of Peter F. Hill, a car conductor of Newark. He is a fine, manly boy and does not think that he did anything unusual in saving the children.

"What, you coughing yet, my friend?"

"Of course."

"Well don't stand on the order of going, but go to the druggist and get a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup quick." He went and he was straightway made happy.

For burns, scalds and other wounds Salvation Oil has proved itself to be the best remedy ever used. All druggists sell it for 25c a bottle.