The Portland daily press., 1896-07-06

and throwing blanket over the horses
head. led the frightened animal out on to
the street and saved him from burning
up. Billy got nice new S. bill from a
member of the Delano company for his
trouble and tying a rag about his fin
gers, which he had cut while opening the
stable door, put the money into his pock-
ct and sailed it away to buy fire crack
ers, perhaps, to help celebrate another
July 4th and may be to start another fire
as large MS that of Satur days.
HOW THE MEN WE'RE HURT.
Meantime the fremen on the Fore
street side were having about all they
could handle. Nine streams of water
We're flooding the burning structure but
the blaze would not give up the battle
and seemed to grow fiercer every second.
Chief Engineer Eldridge, with cool eye
on everything at once and at all points
when Judgement was wanted, thought
that another ladder into the upper stories
on the Fore street side was needed. At
his command up went two more ladders
and on them sprang some OF the choicest
of Portland's fire laddies. On one ladder
was Rosemen George ?. Cady and
Thomas j. Foster of Engine Company
No. 5.
With nozzles poked into the basement
windows of the building Engine Com
paDy had two stream besides the one
which Cady and Foster bad up the ladder
and Engine Company had two streams
stretched across the sidewalk. Cady and
Foster were alone on the ledder and were
dragging the hose up with them with no
one on the ground below to help tighten
up the line. Suddenly the hose got away
from the men on the 4adder and with a
swish and pull jerked itself loose and
took ladder, men and all with it to the
ground.
The hose men on Engine 3's nearest
pipe were the released streams first VIC
Tins. With twist and flop the hose
struck the pipemen of one of Engine 3's
lines and fiattened them out as nine pins
go down befors the heavy ball in bowl
ing alley. Away went this hose, too.
writning and swinging about like mad.
This sent the men OF the other hose line
of Engine skurrying away from the
sweeping, uncomfortable lines and in
thrice three MOBILES on the three separate
pipes were jumping and twisting about in
| the street, sending oceans Of water first
to the right, then to the left. driving back
| the crowd quicker than the charge of q
regiment of calvary could have done it.
Poor George Cady, who had broken his
| leg when he fell from the ladder. WIS
| right in the midst of the melee and could
not get out of the reach Of the blows of
the three hose pipes. Thomas Foster.
who tried to reach him was struck in the
groin by swinging blow from one of
the pipes and knocked senseless onto the
| sidewalk beside the man he had tried to
help. In vain the firemen dashed for
ward to the rescue or attempted to cap
ture the released pipes but they would
be met either with a sting1ug blow or a
deluge of water and driven back.
ssAll this time the men OF Engine as
company had stuck to their posts. lodging
the blows and the streams. They were
in danger. everyone of them, of being
badly hurt If they were hit, but they held
on to their lines for dear life and con-
tinued to pour streams into the fire. now
growing fercer. But one of the pipes
marked Lieutenant john E. Warren 1 OF
four's company for his victim and finally
struck him in the head and knocked him
senseless to the ground. Not satisfied
with this the pipe continued to strike the
| balDIess man and two more blows from
the metal nozzle cut two deep gashes in
his head.
1t was useless to try and shut the