BOY SAVED FROM DROWNING.
Rudolph Lorfing Owes Life to Girl's
Presence of Mind.
The presence of mind displayed yesterday by Miss Anna Paradowsky, 730 Splitlog avenue, Kansas City, Kas., saved the life of 11-year-old Rudolph Lorfing, who had broken through the ice on a pond at Seventh street and Splitlog avenue.
While the boy was struggling in the water, his companions standing on the bank unable to assist him, Miss Paradowsky seized the cistern rope, with a bucket attached, and ran from her home to the pond. The rope was handed to Otto Stearns of 527 Tenney avenue, who, with the assistance of other boys, succeeded in getting one end of the rope to the drowning boy and pulled him to safety.
Lorfing, with four other boys, ventured on the ice on their way home. When the ice broke, three of the boys succeeded in reaching the shore, but Rudolph Lorfing and Herman Fabian were unable to do so. Fabian was dragged out of the water uninjured, but all attempts to save the other boy proved futile until the arrival of Miss Paradowsky. He was removed to the Paradowsky home, where he was revived, and later he was taken to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lorfing, 749 Reynolds avenue, Kansas City, Kas.
