Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-03-16


Horser Partridge. the big dealer in
toys and small wares This was bis
Wholesale department and the foor=
we're paciSssf - tae root with toys ot
all kinds In one roou was a big lot
Of fireworks and they went of with y
rush.
Ths cry Of dre aroused all the en-
psoys=. but before even these on the
aoors could reach the stairs the flames
had preceded them The horror Of the
situation cannot adequately be told
In two minutes the fr~men had spread
their fire nets and rescued score ot
people. Ia five minutes the flames
were pouring from every window %
the great six-story building. and the
Hreusen were forced back. knowing that
there were people within whom IL was
impossible - reach.
From the third is,or. where the Are
start.si. the flames had worked up-
ward aud downward ~ rapidly that
escape was cut or 70 all above the
fourth t'oor.
IL = impossible To tell how many and
who were there. The hospitals ars
hlled with the raaiFned victims who
were forced % jump from the windows,
and there are anxious inquiries for
many others who have not b.:ea a.
counted FOR
The drrnen saw there must be many
who met death in the Partridge brilsI-
ing.
The captain Of engine - says he saw
four girls fall bark into the flames. and
other fr~fnen tell ot two others who
met similar fate On the Opposite side
Of the building The excitement at the
scene was intense.
The iremeu spread their fire nets
and caught many. but the human bodies
dropped 81 fast that il was inpossfbls
To catch all Those who landed in the
nets escaped with spraincd limbs and q
general shaking up. The poor fellows
W no struck the pavement were either
deasi. DIVING or crippled for life.
While this exciting work was going
on. an incident even more thrilling
was being enacted ON Kingston street.
District Chief John Egan. Of East Bo--
ton. climbed - th'. root of the Brown
Burreil building IN Ses II il afforded a
good position from which ~ fight the
Dire. He bad barely reach the edge OF
the roof when a mighty volume OF
Tame SCARED acrUss the little alley that
separated the building from the Par
fridge building and rested IIke
cloud upon the Brown BurreIl
block. EGyan WAS fairly surrounded by
flames His position was one Of great
| peril Stretched across the street from
the roof Of the Am~S building To the
roof OF building opposite was a ca
bic OF telegraph wirr=. Chief
Eyan hesltated but a u1uraeus. wher
he bold seized the cablc aud proeee,lesi
to cross to the opposite building hand
over hand lie haI proressl.si but
few feet when it b.sssme apparent he
could not last long. and greatly to the
crowds relief hs threw both lsg-s over
the cable. whieh sags~,I dangerously
beneath his weight. ami slowly but ts-
diously made his way toward the op-
pu~ite side HIS strength finally gave
out AMI the wire On the safe side was
| cut. letting him down near the ground,
when he dropped into net unhurt
~ much attention had been conferred
ON Chjef Egan that no one hail noticed
that he had been followed by two men
on the root One belonged to hi. own
company. His nam.. was Resttricl. He
and a man unknown To him followed
Chief Egan IN the root aud got caught
in the same whirlwinsi OF fame.
Resstrfclx reached the stairs. but hi.
hands and face were terribly burned:
but the unknown stranger did not
come down The flames settled on the
roof and il blaxed up from hundred
| places.
William = F. RumyclIe. Of New.
| chase & Co, SAIL. Il first saw a nan
with his hair literally siuged Oft hi,
head running, up the street tn the tire
| alarm box sprang q, the door and
saw n spectacle that appalled, me. A
torrent of fame was literally pouring
out of the windows IN the center front
Of the Ames building. The people on
the inside were throwing boxes and
boolSS out of the windows. and boys
were picking them up Very soou upou
the parapst way above the street saw
three men and one woman cling
ing on 10 the stone work
There was no such thing as
/ getting n ladder to them. owing 10 Tn.
network Of wires That is the worst
corner for wires in the city Of Boston
and the whole street Is in peril from
them We watched the qnartette a.
they elung for few inmates only
while the crowd IN the street stocsi ia
brrathfesS silence Then the four. one
after another. let <os down they cams
n height of fully SIX stories and struca
solidly On the frozen ground Every
one of the four were unconscious when
reached. and all must he terribly in,
| jured- There could hardly be a whols
bone in their bodies. saw two oi
them rushed hy on shutter
| MONTECARtO WELLS.