The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16


sympathy and listeners as for him. Lit
tie Kate, who knew her fathers haunts,
had guided him home and was striving
to get him to his little sleeping corner
before her mothers return, when in his
drunken helplessness he fell against the
table, overturning the kerosene lamp,
and the curtains were all afiame in an
instant 1t was just after taps-or 10
o'clock-when Rates shrieks aroused
the inmates of Sudsrille and started the
cry of Fire" The fimsy structure of
pine boards burned like so much tnder,
and the child and her stupefed father
had been dragged forth only in time to
save their lives The little one, after
giving the alarm, had rushed again into
the house and was Juggling at his sense
less form when rescue came for both
none too soon.
As for Mrs. Clancy, at the first note of
danger she had rushed screaming to the
spot, but only in time to see the whole
interior ablaze and to howl frantically
for some man to save her money-it was
all in the green box under the bed For
husband and child she had for the
moment no thought. They were safely
out of the fire by the time she got there,
and she screamed and fought like fury
against the men who held her back
when she would have plunged into the
midst of it. 1t tool. Sut minute for
one or two men -so--1arst through ale
fiimsy wall with axes, to rescue the
rning box and knock off the lid. 1t
was a sight to see when the contents
were handed to her. She knelt, wept,
prayed, counted over bill after bill of
smoking, steaming greenbacks, until
suddenly recalled to her senses by the
eager curiosity and the remarks of some
of her fellow women. That she kept
money, ana good deal of it, in her
quarters had long been suspected and as
fiercely denied; but no one had dreamed
of such sum as was revealed.
In her frenzy she had shrieked that
the savings of her lifetime were burning
that there was over three thousand
dollars in the box; but she hid her treas
ure and gasped and stammered and
swore she was talking wild like" ''They
was nothing but twos and wans," she
vowed; yet there were women there who
declared that they had seen tens and
twenties as she hurried them through
her trembling fingers, and Sudsville Cos
siped and talked for two hours after she
was led away, still moaning and SILVER
ing, to the bedside of poor Clancy, who
was the miserable cause of it all. The
colonel listened to the stories with such
patience as could be accorded to wit
nesses who desired to give prominence
TO their personal exploits in subduing
tae flames and rescuing life and prop
erty. 1t was not until he and the group
of officers with him had been engaged
some moments in taking testimony that
something was elected which caused a
new senation.
1t was not by the united efforts of Suds-
vile that Clancy and Kate had been
dragged from the flames, but by the in
dividual dash and determination of a
single man; there was no discrepancy
here, for the ten or a dozen who were
wildly rushing about the house made no
effort to burst into it until young soldier
leaped through their midst into the blaz-
ing doorway, was seen TO throw a blan-
ket over some object within, and the
next minute appeared again, dragging a
body through the flames Then they
had sprung to his aid, and between them
Kate and 1.-The ould man" were lifted into
the open air. a moment later he had
handed Mrs. Clancy her packet of money,
and-they hadn't seen him since. He
was an officer. said they-a new one.
They thought it must be the new lieuten-
ant of Company B; and the colonel look
ed quickly around and said few words
to his adjutant, who started up the hill
forthwith. A group of officers and la
dies were standing at the brow of the
plateau east of the guard house, gazing
down upon the scene below, and other
ladies, with their escorts, had gathered
on little knoll close by the road that
led to Prairie avenue. 1t was past these
that the adjutant walked rapidly away,
swinging his hurricane lamp in his
hand.
(which way now, Billings" called one
of the cavalry officers in the group.
"Over TO Mr.. Haynes quarters" he
shouted back, never stopping at all.
A silence fell upon the group at men,
ton of the name. They were the ladies
from Capt. Rayner's and few of their
immediate friends. All eyes followed
the twinlsling light as it danced away
eastward towards the gloomy coal sheds
Then there was sudden and intense inter-
est. The lamp had come to a stand still,
was deposited on the ground, and by its
dim ray the adjutant could be seen bend
ing over dark object that was half sit
ting, half reclining at the platform of