From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Butte, Mont., June 14.—Owing to the fact that the assistant manager of Columbia Gardens, the pleasure resort of this city, has trained the swans in the little artificial lake to bring to the shore articles thrown into the water, little Gertrude Onell owes her life.
When the child felt into the water yesterday and was in danger of drowning, and as there was no help near the great birds seized the little one by her clothing and dragged her to the shore, pulling her up high and dry on the bank.
The spectacle was witnessed by several hundred men and women from the piazza, of the pavilion, several hundred feet away, and when they reached the edge of the lake the child was safe, while the swans were standing around waiting to be fed.
The Savannah Morning News, Savannah, GA, June 18, 1903