SEVEN CHILDREN FORM CHAIN AND SAVE PLAYMATE FROM DEATH

Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 27—Forming a human chain over the thin ice of a skating pond near a school house in Baldwin township, seven children, none over eight years of age, saved their companion, Charlotte Smidt, from drowning. The little girl, after repeated warnings, started across the pond with the words "I am not afraid," and about twenty feet from the shore broke through. One little one went for the teacher, but before she had return {sp} the human chain had been formed and the little Smidt girl brought safely to shore, none the worse for her experience.

Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 12/27/1912