Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-16

the great S1x-stOry building, and tho
hremen were forced back, knowing that
there were people within whom it was
Impossible to reach.
From the third floor. where the fire
started. the flames had worked up
ward and downward 30 rapidly that
escape was cut OF to all above the
fourth floor.
It Is impossible to tell how many and
who were there. The hospitals are
hlled with the MANNED victims who
were forced to jump from the windows,
and there are anxious INQUIRIES for
many others who have not been &C.
counted for.
The hremen say there must be many
who met death in the Partridge build
ing.
The captain of engine rs says he saw
four girls fall back into the flames. and
other flremen tell of two others who
met similar fate on the opposite side
OF the building. The excitement at the
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 q
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
Rnrroll fNspildiyao t, az doA
good position from which to fight the
fire. He had barely reach the edge of
the roof when a mighty volume of
fame 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 a ca
BILE of telegraph wires. Chief
Egan hesitated but a 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
the cable, which sagged dangerously
beneath his weight, and slowly but te-
diousiy 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 a net unhurt.
So much attention had been conferred
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that he had been followed by two men
on the roof. One belonged to his own
company. His name was Resttrick. He
and man unknown to him followed
Chief Egan to the roof and got caught
in the same whirlwind of fame.
Resttrlclk 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 hundred
places. tM
William S. F. Rumyelle, of New.
chase & Co., said: 81 first saw a man
with his hair literally singed off his
head running up the street to the fire
alarm box. sprang t.. the door and
saw 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
books ont 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 a 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 a few minutes only,
while the crowd in the street stood in
breathless silence. Then the four, one
after another. let go; down they came
n 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 a whole
bone in their bodies. 1 saw two of
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