The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-09

stairs. and hsnNsd in closer and cio-
ser. she get out at 4 window and crouch
cd on the sill. The flames came up
behind her. and made her dress smoke.
as though about to blaze up. She
screamed for help, but the top OF the
nearest ladder was nearly two stsries
below her. The heat where she was
must have been inten sc. Her hair was
singed, and. hsvgh msnifsstly incap-
acitated by terror. she managed 70 drop
herself dow n to the Intel Of the next
window below. when she crouched on
the barrow footing. still clingiRg with
her hands to the het sill. There she
remained a minute or two, shielding
her face as best she could, and. Doubt
less suffering agouies from the scoroo-
ing of her exposed hands. Niremen
and others cried to her to hold on.
Whether she did so a. long as she could
bear the heat or simply became fren-
zied with terror could not be made
out: but she suddenly raised herself 70
a standing posture, gathered her skirt
closely around her legs with one hand.
gave a piercing shrek, and leaped
down. She was a heavy woman, and
her BODY struck the stone sidewalk
with a dreadful sound Of breaking
bones and bruised flesh wat smashed.
HE'LL TO- WITHOUT.
This was not over when Richard D.
Tracy and Robert Bowie, typesetters
10 the Scottish american office. emerg-
ed, half smothered, from windows of
the top story. They lowered themselve.
to the lintels of the fourth story, just
as poor Ellen Bull had done, and chung
there. Gusts Of smoke whirled round
them, at times shutting them out from
the view Of the now greatly excited
multitude aud then the wind would
blow it away, revealing them
again in their awful plight.
They were about twelve feet apart, and
they spoke to each other frequently.
They listened to the shouted encourage
ment from men in the street. too,
and did not for an instant lose self-cOn-
troll But the flames darted out over
their heads, the skin on their hands
WAS scorchiug, and they shrank down
as low as possible on the %lintels, SO as to
escape the heat. The hair of one was
sillged, and, after perhaps five minutes
OF the frightiul suspense, the close
flames threatened momentarily to burn
them on their perches. Still, no means
of surely saving them came to the eager
hands below. The best that could be
done was to try to help them in a for
lorn attempt to reach the ladder. A
stalwart man in the whitened dress of a
mason, understood to have been an
employee on one of the new buildings
of the neighborhood, climbed to the top
Of ladder. Behind him was a fireman.
Then Tracy was told to slip down the
projection at the side of a window
and drop to the ladder. He did it
without hesitation. He struck on the
top rung, was grabbed by the mason,
and his peril was over. Bowie accom-
plished the same feat amid cheers.
They were grimy and scorched. Bowie
severely SO.
Three men were seen ~gesticulating
wildly at a titth-story window at the
street corner of Park row.
No way of rescuing them was conceived
by anybody but Charley Wright, a
young half: breed Indian and negro, en-
in Keenan's saloon. When he
up, on hearing the men cry out
VI hCihf ~ CaN tl6td N S1Ul0 al
from the corner of the c~ornice to a tele-
graph pole across the street.
Hi, Mikel' he called to Michael
Pryor, a boy; come and boost me-
1uick |"
Charley got a start from Mixes
and by hard, fast, desperate
mounted the pole to the cross
oars. A spike in one hand aided him !
L the feat, and with that as a tool he I
visited the cable loose. The other end '
vas already securely fastened above the :
leads of the three carpenters. and they
udaeniy saw a practicable fire escape
Laughing within reach. They lost no =
ime in using it. Two did so by going
lown hand over hand. The third slid
With his hands clutching the wires, and
vas considerably lacerated. As for
III srley Wright, he had bad luck after
lis heroism. In slipping down the
,ole, his foot touched a lamp post, and
linking he had reached the side walk,
lie let go his hold, and got a fall which
AIMED him. Then a man offered him
fly cents to fetch an overcoat from a
DOM in the lower story of the Potter
He was familiar with the
DOM, and did the errand in a jiffy. He
5 believed to have been the last person
0 quit the house. The police lines
we're being formed when he emerged,
nd he could barely hand the coat to its
wner before being prodded off by a
lub-without the half dollar, though
e expects to get it. Later in the day
he American Humane Society voted
i'm a medal.
YOUNG GIRLS GOODNESS.
Ida Small, a young girl employed as
manuensis, got out on the sill of a
in the fourth story. A tele
raph wire ran across the top of the
and by it she steadied herself
7hile standing outside the sash. She
7as hatless, and her clothing was dis :
rdered. The flames crept up until +
hey set fire to her hair; but she put it
ut, and a moment later extinguished "
.er skirts, doing it quite calmly. 1t q
ookei as though she must drop either
ack into the room or down into the
treet but the blaze receded temporari- &
2, and she famed her glowing face with I
ne hand. A ladder was hastily put up.
t did not reach her. :
"Hold on fast" a fireman shouted. T
Yes, but hurry Miss Small re- !.
lied. $
Fireman John L. Rooney climbed up
s far as he could, and was barely able
o touch her feet as she hung from the
"Drop!' he said.
She let go, falling between him and
he ladder, and he was able to keep
~ frnr, oEropo %b~orH L.