The morning times., 1896-05-19
THREE IRE DEAD,
SEVEN INJURED
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tions at once, kept the crowd effectively at
DARING FEATs OF FIREMEN.

tious at once, kept the crowd effectively at
bay.
DARING FEATS OF FIREMEN.
How the brave firemen dared challenge
the heat at close range is mystery.
But they plunged forward maddened by the
| defiant flames and held the squirting hose
in the very face of the enemy. There
will be many a singed hand and blistered
brow to remind the gallant workers of the
hours put in at last nights conflagration,
| but sadder reminders still are the vacant
places in the engine companies whose
brave members met death Willie facing
duty.
one of the first exclamations of the new
cCner was: See the horsev' He was the
cynosure of all eyes, that same equine
that stood as with human head, q centaur
defian5, on the gable OF the bazaar. Moth
ing more picturesque can be imagined than
this beautifully formed statuesque figure
high up amid rolling sm oke and licking
flames. He stood over Bensinger's sale
| stables.
1t was a wonderfully life like figure
! framed in light. His noStrils snorting the
danger which raised no fears for him. HIS
calm, impurturbable, heroic, stole as a
| gladiator he stood his ground and dared the
flames TO do their worst.
Finally there was Il sudden cracking.
Smoke belched from the windo ws belowand
scared upward in Il consuming volume thai
wrapped the horse in an iinpenetrabie cloud.
| 1t grew In grey and black density, but not
SO thick but that tongues of fire pierced
through and through and murmur
rose from the thousands OF pressed lips.
| II wa $ a murmur of pity and hope for poor
| senseless piece of wood.
But the fellow seemed so real and noble
there was no checking admiration and when
! in another moment the flames and smoke
| left him in the clear again IL was almost
| a cheer that broke the monotonous hum oi
the busy workers. He's little the worse
for wear but he's still there at the old stand
! this morning.
'B gosh the Morton Cadets won't think
they're going TO have a reception, or Moth
! in'r' screamed an urchin i'll the crowd.
| His auditors about laughed apprcciatively
at tie well made point, for while they were
standing there the swift train was bringing
home the conquerors and the city's pride.
WHEN THE MORTONS CAME.
They saw the flames miles away and for
| a time the suspicion did find lodgment that
| an unusually fiaShy reception awaited them.
| Though everyone else in the big block
| piled their chattels high in the cutters and
sat hoping, some praying, that the devas-
! taton might spare them, one man kept
| philoSophcally to his business and piled a
! good trade in the face of the threatening
dangers. AT his saloon at the northeast
| corner of and Tenth street lie did u
| land office business in beer and other cool
draughts.
He was calm and complacent while his
neighbors danced about like chickens with
| their heads off and not once during the
| hub-bub did he make an error in change
or give over measure. While others arc
counting their losses this morning the host
of the bibulous resort will count his gains
| It's an i'll wind that doesn't blow some
good to the street cars and the nervy man.
WHERE EXCITEMENT REIGNED.
The fire was attended with so many
tragic Incidents, fatalities, serious wounds
! aud extensive destruction OF property, thai
it had a continuing fascination for the
crowd long after midnight. After 2 m
the supreme interest was on the Louis
lana avenue side OF the burnt and burning
section.
only one OF the serious accidents oc'
Cured on the B street side. This was the
singular accident to Michael Barry, of
| Engine No. Z He had mounted ladder
and nozzle in hand was making his way
| through the still hot and smoking rafters
! when the hose burst. The tremendous re-
! coil Of the nozzle was received full in his
stomach and he was precipitated to the
floor stunned.
Regardless of themselves and of the rea
cause of the singular accident, his fellow
| firemeu rushed TO his assistance, one OF
them rushing Off instantly to the Nintt
| street and Avenue telephone to summon
| the ambulance. He was taken out of Tie
building, laid on the pavement, where, IL
great agony, but having regained con
| seriousness, he awaited the coming OF the
| overwOrked ambulance.
A gentleman, hearing OF the accident
drove his buggy through the crowd and
rendered it to the wounded fireman, bu
the Emergency ambulance arriving, he was
removed to the hospital
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.
While he was lying on the pavement {
noteworty incident occurred. young
lady handsomely dressed, made her way
as far into the dense crowd as she could
making an inquiry about the wounded man
Who is it," she asked, in broken ant
trembling tones, several times. When sh'
was told that the fireman's name had no
been ascertained, but that he was OF No
Z, it only increased her emotion. She
said:
~ have a brother in that building ant
he belongs TO No. IT, When at last sh
When a baby come
~ - to the house real hap
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