, 1890-08-02

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meht of their clothing. Their hair was
streaming in the wind as they ran like I'm
prisoned animals from one end OF their
prison to the other, maddened by the APP,
preaching flames, confronted by death from
jumping, By death from fire, by death from
smoke.
The crowd OF twenty thousand persons
who saw their peril from the streets below
shouted to them abe quiet! here come me
iremen! You're ali rightw But there was
the roar of the fl lmeS. The sitting smoke,
The heat becoming more Intense, the gra.
mite foundations of their only chance OF
life swapping like musket shots, all 0ienI-
ing into Hne supreme ttrrOr!
Backward aud forward they continued
to rush, wringing their hl1iS atll shrek
ing for help skrlekS which never reached
The ground. Hook ami LLdtler truck NO. 10
had sent its mon up to the roof Of the build
ing at Broadway and Fulton street. Tuck
No. / had its men on tile roof OF the Amerl'
can District Messenger Conpany'S build
ing, adjoining the burnir butldiag IN DeE
street. Chief Reilly, under the dlre@tloh o;
Chief Bonner, had led his men directly INTO
the structure, and was even there hThtlng
the flames upward ftom story TO story,
chasing them as it literally WIS from the
sixth floor to the root.
The Fire Department has in use twenty
of the TngerSoil life line gu0j and sonia ut
them were taken to the five. \ corr J Oh
dull explosions sounded from LaiIi'
where the truck r'r" wPre, Ati
sailed through Z. H." ant t.
across the balcony q ~
women were pcayia- ID, &'
cheer vent NJ from he eros ttel SIN
D,A.:.f- Y ILL., -, - r-, ,,,,t K-'tN &C. co
desperately hemmed il Ivy lie flames,
c'a.ch one of the lines aud tie It's end asst
to one IT the iron Tinlov supports.
They were to be sayel then Yes, tut
not that way. A fireman was seen 10 cIlmH
through Il seventh foor window, lrSt as
Kelly was tying the ropp around he walS"
Uf one of he women. "UDuit 10 l." he
said, "we've got here and wA'li get you
out !" One OF the women threw her arms
about the fire ans neck. Soon the balcony
seemed to swarm with %irelien. Above them
the flames still rOared and Kissed az the
water fell among them. But the women
were safe. Again there came q cIeer tcom
the crowd below.
But even then it was NO light task to
save these wOmen's lives. The fremen had
fought their way to them actually through
fame, and the stairway down which they
must pass was glowing with the heat. The
women were terror stricken and nearly
helpless, and the fremeu were obllged to
drive them down to the street. As they
descended through the intense heat their
rescuGrs constantly played thu water from
three hose upon them. They were only say
ed because of this prOvldrntial cataract.
When they found themselves safe Ill the
street most u them faintod. the names
of the rescued women were:- Ellen heat'
ing, Mary Heating, Hanna CouglIIin, Annie
Si4ttc4ly, Anime Hogan and Sarah Delaney.
The men, besides Kelly WHO "'ere with
them, were George Smith ard James ShIeis.
They were all employed III the Kitchen ana
the luncheJ IN room on the eighth floor. they
lived in rooms provided for them on the
same floor.
But the tr1ckmen were not idle all this
time. Those belonging to No. got, nip to
the roof of the Dey street building Just III
time to see three persons sitting upon II
fraiI looking rl1nk, supported from the
wall facing New Church street by a series
of brackets used for strin-iig the cables
upon. They we're ON 81 level With the
seventh floor aud were two c%oiOured women
aud a white man. They kada ~p+~i1epily
chosen this place as their Onl IapG f>c
tle flames were tierce on either side Of
them.
The fr4men put nip a Fhirty-fro foot ex-
tension ladder, and taking the women first
carried them to the ground. One of the
women had not taken great care III dressing