The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-03-17

the great six-story building, and the
firemen were forced back, knowing that
there were people within whom it was
impossible to reach.
From the third floor, where the fro
started, the flames had worked up
ward and downward so RAPIDLY that
escape was cut off to all above the
fourth floor.
1t is impossible to tell how many and
who were there. The hospitals are
filed with the maimed victims who
were forced to jump from the windows,
and there are anxious inquiries for
many others who have not been ac-
counted for.
The firemen say there must be many
who met death in the Partridge build
ing.
The captain of engine 26 says he saw
four girls fall back into the flames, and
other firemen tell of two others who
met a similar fate on the opposite side
scene was intense.
The firemen spread their fire nets
and caught many, but the human bodies
dropped SO fast that it was impossible
to catch all. Those who landed in the
nets escaped with sprained limbs and
general shaking up. The poor fellows
VINO struck the pavement were either
dead, dying 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 Bos-
ton, climbed to the roof of the Brown
Burrell building to see if it afforded a
good position from which to fight the
fire. He had barely reach the edge of
the roof when a mighty volume of
flame scared across the little alley that
separated the building from the Par
fridge building and rested like
a cloud upon the Brown-Burrell
block. Egan was fairly surrounded by
flames. His position was one of great
peril. Stretched across the street from
the roof of the Ames building TO the
roof of building opposite was ca
bic of telegraph wires. Chief
Egan hesitated but moment, when
he boldly seized the cable and proceeded
to cross to the opposite building hand
over hand. He had proceeded but
few feet when it became apparent he
could not last long, and greatly to the
crowds relief he threw both legs over
beneath his weight, and slowly but te-
diously made his way toward the OPP
posite side. His strength finally gave
out, and the wire on the safe side was
cut, letting him down near the ground,
when he dropped into net unhurt.
So much attention had been conferred
on Chief Egan that no one had noticed
that he had been followed by two men
on the roof. One belonged to his own
company. His name was Resttrick. He
and a man unknown to him followed
Chief Egan to the roof and got caught
in the same whirlwind of flame
Resttrlck reached the stairs, but his
hands and face were terribly burned;
but the unknown stranger did not
come down. The flames settled on the
roof and it blazed up from a hundred
places.
William S. F. Rumyelle, of New
chase & Co., said: II first saw man
with his hair literally singed off his
head running up the street to the fire.
alarm box. / sprang to the door and
saw spectacle that appalled, me. A
torrent of flame was literally pouring
out OF the windows In the center front
Of the Ames building. The people on
the inside were throwing boxes and
books out of the windows, and boys
were picking them up. Very soon upon
the parapet way above the street / saw
three men and one woman cling
ing on to the stone work.
There was no such thing as
getting ladder to them, owing to the
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 quartette as
they chung for few minutes only,
while the crowd in the street stood in
breathless silence. Then the four, one
after another, let go; down they came
height of fully six stories and struck
solidly on the frozen ground. Every
one of the four were unconscious when
reached, and all must be terribly in
jured. There could hardly be whole
bone in their bodies. / saw two of
them rushed by on shutter"