The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-12-25

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Nrw YosK, December is.-A four
stog brown stone building. East Tent
street, II numbered 80 and 50. There Il
: store on ne ground noor. and In The
three upper stories Of The cost wing Mrs.
Fanham lets out furnished rooms u
dodgers. Mrs.. Celia Kelly lives IN ~
west wing on the west side a The bric1
wall that divides he houses In two. Niso
Celia Lyusgh lives with her. Il W.
nearly half past two O'Clock when Mia
LynAgh was aroused By : suspicious
smell Of smoke She Investigated ana
found that is came from Nn. pan
hams premises NJ No. ~. Putting on her
clothes she went down % the street end
pulled the bell % No. - and then tried
she door. Il was open. Miss Lynagh shout
ed Are. but no one answered. Then she
rcsolutely climbed the long stairs 20 the
second 6oor. CROPPED her way along the
landing and raped on the doors.
ssvIRE. FIRE. vlKEi"
she shouted. - loudly - the smoke
which filed her throat would let her
There were hurried movements within
and preparations for flight. Up the second
and the third flights the brave girl groped
her way through the thickening smoke.
knocking on the doors and uttering her
warning cry. At the top the smoke
grew almost insu6erable, but Miss
Lynash did not shrink. She knew
that people lived on the noor
and heard no sound 70 indicate
that they were awake. The hand
rails and balusters were hot and the
smoke threatened to choke her AZ every
step. At the head Of the stairs she ran
against door hammered on il and pushed
IL open man was within sitting awake
In chair pulling on his clothes. "Hurfy,
hurys" shouted the girl. "the house Is
on 6re." He did not turn or seem to pay
any attention TO her. As she turned she
saw the stairway 1t her feet between the
landing she stood on and the fourth
floor blaze into IRE. Resolutely gather
ing her skirts about her. she made dash
down the flight and got through the Dire
unscathed and reached the street in safety.
The fremen met her e the door. she
told them that there was one laggard
still on the top door, cut OF,
but that she thought be had gained
the roof through the scuttle- The nre-
mea went up, but before they reached
0e burning fight . crash was heard in
he rear Of the house and the missing
lodger was found in the hack yard with (
sprained back. He was Charles A. Wat
son. thirty-four years old. The room was
In the rear and the iron ladder TO the
scuttle in closet in front. Between them
were the stairs that were blazing BY the
time he got ready to leave. Escape either
way was out Of the question. Mr.. Wat
on did the next best thing that could he
done.
He shut his chamber door on the fre,
took the sheets from his bed and, knot
ting them together, tied one end 70 the
bcdstead and threw the other out Of TIE
window The rope thus made reached
TO within seven or eight feet Of . narrow
extension, the roof Of which was under
the second story windows Il was hax-
aryious 70 attempt TO Jump 70 il for fear
Of falling over into the yard, but there
was nothing else to be done. Mr.. Wat
son let himself down the length Of
the rope AMI dropped He dropped
on the edge Of the narrow ledge
and from that into the yard There the
hremen found him, unable 20 stir. and
sent for IN ambulance. The surgeon de-
-ided that his spine was injured and
removed him 20 the New YoEk Hospital.