Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-26
THE CHAMPION CORRESPONDENT.

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THE CHAMPION CORRESPONDENT.
The wSse.t s aS Asw Ss Hsrs rs
Fire.
From The Chicago Times. oot 20.
Chicago has endured the presence of
many healthy prevaricators IN the past,
but in her late affiiction she has been
victimized upon scale fully commensu-
rate with the magnitude OF her calam-
ity. Chief among the persons who have
built Munchausen histories upon our
woe, correspondent of the New York
Evening Telegraph stands out in bright
and unapproachable relief. Peruslng
his account of personal adventures, one
is left in painful doubt which to admire
most, the writer's modesty, or his in
genious defiance of all rules grammati-
cal.
IAN incident" he says, (which L am
about to relate, which, while 1t colled up
INV very soul in horror, failed to entirely
obliterate from my mind, my sense OF
duty, or to take away completely my
sense of consciousness of what should
be done on such terrible emergency,
in such sudden and terrible emer-
gency, which is part and parcel of every
mans innate composition to a more or
less degree.
son the night of the second edition
of the great fire, justas the flames burst
with ungovernaLle fury down along Wa
bash avenue and that vicinity, surpris-
| ing many of the inmates OF the resi-
| dences OF that rather aristocratic locality,
| |, with some hundreds of others, stood
| disturbedly in mind at least, contempla-
ting the fearful ravages the devastlng
element was making among the palatial
structures that lined that tnoroughtare,
when methought perceived the face
and partial form OF human being
frantically gesticulatlng at onS of the
second story windows OF what L was after
ward told was No. Is. INSTANTLY called
the attention of my heighbors to the
heart-rending spectacle, and wildly
called for some volunteers to assist in a
rescue The house was enveloped in
flames in moment, quicker than pen
can describe. In a moment also the
shadow of a form had disappeare d.
Feeling lest human being or beings
were about to perish in sight of null
titude of fellow beings, placed, however,
in comparative safety, sudden despera-
ton all at once seemed to take posses
sion OF my whole frame, and with some
wild, incoherent expression, l dashed
down the street, determined to do or to
die, as the phrase is, and with leaps
rather than strides l made for the house,
never losing S ght of the window at
which l had first distinctly discovered
the form, and almost instantly found
myself painting at the very door. The
heat was almost insuferable; in fact
felt my very breath scorched as | stood
there, at the same time the perspiration
was rolling off my forehead in massive
drops, which seemed to my excited
Imagination bucketfuls.
~ had thus stood a lion at bay as il
were, for the space of about five min
utes, when saw woman, all ablaze
her garments nearly completely burned
off and the few shreds remaining one
mass of fire, dashing through the living
hell, holding tenaciously to what again
appeared a parcel of consuming com
bustible matter, such as wood or woolens
OF some description. Without calcu
lating the immense risk, or the appalling
danger, l gave one spring and claspeo
the expiring form in my arms. At the
same instant the bundle was dropped
from the arms of the female, and she
herself fell on my arm for support with
: agroan. lquickly conveyed the woman
bIstered and nude, with smouldering gar
, ments hanging from her shoulders, with
out the pale of the flames, and then sanl
to the ground more like corpse thai
anything living. A few of the NOR,
courageous of the lockers on done tn,
rest that Is, carried the rescued woman
and my unconscious self to place o
,, safety, and thus saved two lives tha
, otherwise would have been sacrificed
! Immediately after escaping the create
peril. The bundle that the lady ha,
!, under her arm was subsequently asceI
, tanned to have been an only infant
, sweet boy of two months. He perishe,
at the threshold of rescue, dropped b
the exhausted arms of its mother, VIII
; held it as long as human power sustaine
her.
"My injuries were trifing, considerin
= the desperation of the exploit, and l ar
l now so far recovered as to feebly deta
the particulars of one of the most exert
: ciatingly appalling experiences that
. hase yer been my fortune to be the her
, of. The above can be vouched for by so
l witnesses if necessary. The name {
the lady or the fate OF the rest of th
= family, am yet in total ignorance o
;, butwlll ascertain and forward as speedil
, as my researches will admit. At las
!. accounts she was in a state of insens
{ bility, but in fair way of ultimate r.
:, coyeryn