The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-06-06

ond lieutenant, and Of using the officer
Of the night for step-ladder to got out
Of the window of our quarters withi and
Tom jenkins says that he ran half a
block, and didn't step on anything but
sergeants of the guard, who had been
knocked down 10 trying to stop from
going, all except the detachment. ~
Anyhow, or somehow, We all went.
We rushed to the eugino-houses- (for
we hadn't been twenty minutes in the
village before we knew the precise looa-
ton of every engiue-house) found the
doors locked-ha, hal.-who cared for
looks2 We kicked them in; found the
enginesi dragged them out; only about
one in three was in squirting order, but
we dragged them every one to the Gre
FIRE was next to Willard s Hotel, Will
lard was scared; so was his hotel; so we're
all his passengers; they came hurrying
down from their rooms in their bare
heels; dressed principally in their night
gowns, and carrying their carpet bags
in their hands, intending to fnishdr
ing in the streets in the presence of an
admiring multitude,
Then we found out how our Zouave
practice helped us do FIRE duty We
hadn't any ladders; so we made pyra.
mids, by standing on each others shoul.
ders, so as to get up to the upper win.
dows, Then, I fatter myself, We al
came out strong. can only speak fol
myself, but l know that I came ont tre
mendously strong. Flinging 2O0foet o
hose over my shoulder, and sticking
short pipe in my belt, ran up pyra
mid of men, principally belonging t
Company b. / went up four men at Z
jump; the bottom fellows wriggIed lit
tie as l got up to the fifth story, but al
had made up my mind that if the
fell, should make a grand leap, catcl
the eaves-trOugh with one Les, lowe
down one end Of my coil of hose will
my left hand, screw the nozzle on will
my right, sing out, "Start your water
| Ia, and so save WilIard's on my OWL
hook; was prepared for any emergen
cy. But the boys didn't finch; the,
stood it like trumps; so 1 lowered ava,
my hose-fOund to my dismay, that j
only reached halfway down; tied tn
nozzle to the lightning rod, and wen
down the pyramid five men at jump
caught up an engine under my arm
and called on my boys to follow me
boys saw what was about, and did fol
low me; ran up the pyramid, six mer
at time, with my engine, to where tn
hose dangled; screwed the end of tn
hose into the neck of the engine; by thi
time two fellows had come up wit
more hose and a couple of long planks
they screwed their hose into the butt
and then held the planks on thei
shoulders, while twenty fellows of Com
pany G ran up stood on the planks, ant
worked that engine which took waite
from another engine on the sidewalk
while l ran up the pyramid, seven mel
at a time, to the roof, where l took tn
pipe, hung by my heels to the caves
trough, head downward, and played in
to the sixth story windows.
Then 1 heard cry of distress dow
in the fourth story; a woman's cry, ais
a child s-a baby's, a female babys; a
nearly as I could make out in the shOl
space had for reflection, it was the ye
of female baby, of about fOurtoe
months, be the same more or less.
immediately swung myself back to tn
roof, handed the pipe to jenkins, ra
down the pyramid, eight men at a time
to the fourth story; for "when, yo
remember, twas the gallant fireman eve
deaf to the cry of woman in dis
and all the rest of it. Dashed throug
the window; found woman; also fOun
child; also found old gentleman; ais
found large dog-or, rather, large do
found me; caught up woman under on
arm, child under the other, tossed th
p old gentleman on my shoulders,and theI
with the dog fastened by his teeth
the rear rank of my pantaloons, / rush
} ed to the window, and dashed down th
pyramid ten men at a time, and depOl
2 tied my precions charge in safety, ami
the cheers of the multitude, one of whol
, owned the dog. Fair lady at once fe
on her knees, and told nc GLOW coul
she reward me? to which / made al
swer, "give me a needleful of red threa
. to mend my pantalOons, and a box o
Dalley's Pain Extractor to mend th
place where the dogs teeth eXcavate
{ me-" She said she would do it; but sh
{ didn't from which it is easy to see th'
j woman is an ungrateful animal.
BY this time the boys had put out IL
= FIRE. Willard was saved; and all WI
D again serene. Just about this tin
d some of the Washington iremen 6,
q walked up and came along, and wei
e disposed to get mussy about our maxim
= free with their engines; but they SOC
, thought better of it.--[N. Y Sund'
Mercury.
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