A Hero Boy in Alabama.

East Lake, Ala.–East Lake has produced a Carnegie hero, and unless justice miscarries woefully, Emmet Calhoun, aged nine years, will receive a medal from the honor of libraries and giver of gifts. At the risk of his own life this East Lake youth dared what seemed sudden death to save the life of a young baby.

Saturday morning Young Calhoun while out on Wahouma Heights picking berries with a number of playmates, discovered the house of James Brown nearby wrapped in flames. Running to the scene with all haste the boys began assisting Mr. and Mrs. Brown in saving their household effects. In their hurry to get out all of the furniture the father and mother had forgotten the baby that was sleeping peacefully in the house through all the uproar.

All of the goods had been taken from the house with the exception of those in one room and the walls of the building were on the verge of collapsing. Suddenly the infant was awakened, its cries ringing out above the roar of the flames. The mother threw up her hands in hysterical agony. The baby seemed doomed. Without a moment’s hesitation, Emmet Calhoun darted into the burning house. Snatching the infant in his arms he bored it in safety to its mother, just as the walls of the house succumbed to flames and collapsed.

THE OPP HUSTLER, FRIDAY, 1905