Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 14, 4 October 1894 — A HEHOINE [ARTICLE]

A HEHOINE

M&cj av» »brav«rT aui l s ses§ioa »ere vrtne«sed u N.>rth* i rn Mino&H* dar»ag ImU f rc*t 6r..-. Lul noi,-haVM ' >;bjCted wīder atteEt uU IOaU that of the littie tw-lve-vear-old hemine <>f P rtridge, «hosaved htr bab\ br lher, tw«» *nd a half ■ i\ e r> t»f age. fr m certain deat aod wh i »as ai-«> iu«tramentat in s ving Ier i:nt'ier, wlio bad gi> en , Iup al. hoj>e • f tscape fruia the | fiery torn do vhii h scaxtered ( de ith and destr ction ou tvery s: ;e September st. Thc onginal story «>f her «ehi veojent. w ; ;ich wa» sent o;t * •ln-ing the excit nw t sub<i quent to t,e teiri e e »ntl <gration. was ! ineompieU- and fr.«gme»it <ry, 1 -ays tLe U• st S j eri r corres-•p>nd-nt of the C'hic-go InUr , 1 Orenn. The namy of the subject j of this little storv is Freda John j 'On, and she is one of six children belouging to the Johnson family of Partr dge. Minrws«">ta. M hen it became *p; arejt that j their hom- wor.ld be s vept away the old f<>lks heean»' panie stricken. They were alm >st helples3 € from the sm->ke whieh blinded e th* m acd thc*y were ab>i>,t t<> t.-<k- , ret> g- iu the eellnp. T:iey were persuaded to mn for the sraall t pond. situuU'd half a mile distant. j in tiie excit« mei.l Joe, the two- j und a-baIf-ye.ir-old babv, w«s j forgotten. His si>ter Freda ' missed him nnd returued in the > face of the terrible ?iuoke to i seareh f r him. j r SLe passed near him in the 1 \ard \\t ieh eurrounded tbe l>ouse t and whieh was now i , fiames, | and her quick heanl his ] screams < f terror above ilie r ar- e • nig of the tempest and fiam> s. t Si»e grasned him iu her arms and ] nn for life and * Joo’s” She t reached th»> pond staggering un- ( der the butden and gasping for s bre tli Her strength had alm >st fnh d her when it would 1 liave been tno late. Freda uext discovered that h«r mother was , , missing, and her atteution was dnw:i to an objtct on a burning brulge. \<hich she recognized as the distracted pu*ent. Shō fle\v to her side. but the woman warn- : ed her away, s iymg th ,t she pref<*rred to bur.i th<-re to suffermg ' the samo fute in the water. Pr>da i grasped her ha’f crazed m ther and pulled d jmsh< d her off the burning strncture and finally got her to the <\ater and safetv. Freda d d this ltut act at the ■ s>cnfice of her beaut ful hair, whieh was streaming dowu her back, and whieh was s > badly burned it had to be cut <>fT i»t the nepk. It is littie short of a miraele that tlie child st •« d so mueh exertion under the circnmstances for the heat and smoke were almst unbeiir.«bie. ?? e certaiuly l displayed heroism of the purcot type. Fredu Johnson is one of na- ; t>ire’s uncut dinm nds. '.Shf* is unacciut«med to oity siphts and her stay in Suji-rior is an ejx>cl* in her life. She has been lionized by tlie relicf comraitt<e. and there is ta!k . f extending to her sorae te«timoni •! of a jmbiio nature for her undanoted and un9elfisb heroism on the long-to-be j -reraembered day of tbe great j forest fires. j