Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-02

rear and connected with the Beard |
building, and the fine Garnett & Will
liams building across the narrow
street, which was finished only few
months ago. These buildings were
kept saturated and it looked like the
red demon was under control. But
the end was not yet. Again the wall
ing whistle of the engine was heard
and the water ceased 10 flow. In a
moment Capt. Wiley ordered the
driver to transfer the engine to the
river at the foot of Spring street. Jor-
dan Barker, the colOred driver came
laundering up Spring street, but
when he reached Main the crowd
called out "halt ?" The outside wall of
the Beard corner was Keeling and
cracking and the man who passed be-
low it would have 10 do so at The
peril OF his life. But the brave driver
gathered up his reins, dashed the
mammoth bays into a gallop and sue
cessfully ran the gauntlet while
hundred voices were calling, "come
back!" In a very few minutes the
MOBILES were ready for service, but
just at this awful moment the one at
the corner of Main and Spring streets
got out of fix. The only remedy was
to put on another. The large sky
light in the third story, side and roof,
of the Garuett u Williams building,
across the 20-foot street was cracking
and melting. The heated paint fell
from the iron cornice in great sheets
the window-frames were scorching
and SIN jking and the men on the root
had abandoned their wet blankets and
been driven away by the heat. The
I heat inside Of Anderson's photograph
gallery was almost uncomfortable. Ev-
cry instant seemed an age. Hurry
hurry hurry!" was heard on every
hand, and just as it seemed hattlc
very last moment had come befose it
would be too late, the firemen pointed
a stream towards the melting glass
and the noble structure, though own
cd by Baptisis, was sawed by aeth-
odist baptism. All this 5,alepired
in a few minutes but it ! A-wa ~.
hour. SO intense had p'ee The
interest in this bui,slng which
needed spriMkling worse tlrsS Tie
fellow in Texas needed pistol, that
nobody had thought of the tottcring
wall on THE opposite side. Finding
that the watof barely reached the
skylight opening from Main street,
Ellis Roper and Henry Henderson
ventured about twenty feet down
Spring street. Suddenly every heart
stood still. The waH toas failing.
Lookout lookout" cried the specta-
tors, but it was too late to escape.
Jumping close to the wall oppo 'ite.
they chung to the nozzle while the
hot bricks fell with crash filling
the street and covering two-thirls
of the narrow pavement upon which
they stood. A rush was made for
the spot before the dense smoke and
ldust cleared away, but the intrepid
( Rremen called ont "all right" and a.
the cloud slowly lifted they were
seen still holding tire nozzle. Cheer
after cheer went up from thousand
throats when their safety was as
sured. The falling of the wall re-
moved the danger to the opposite
building and the fire was checked.
During the awful moments while the
engine wes being moved to the river,
fireman L. r. McCamy stood upon
the single room of the factory in the
rear and fought the flames till relief
came. This building was saved and
at 3 o'clock A. NJ, the fire which was
second only to that of Oct. %, 1882,
! was under control.
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