Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
ISLAND POND VT. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1898.
NOTES FROM THE HUB.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. !

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I with insufficient strength for the uses
( to which 1t was put, weak aud over
| loaded floors made heavier 10y the
/ weight of water put in TO check the
/ spread of flames To which II offered
exceptional opportunity; half-a-dozeu
brave men crushed and iifeleSs in
the internal ruin. aud others more
or less seriously injured. From
/ time to time there comes u re-
currence of these tragic scenes,
and the pity of it all is that it
Is so unnecessary, opreventable by the
I ordinary precautions that humanity
and a true appreciation of civic respon-
sibiIity should suggest. The building
where the fatal fire occurred was orig
/ lnally a church. 1t has undergone
several transformations since, first as
Il machine shop, and as fire or other
causes has ended one industry another
/ has succeeded. 1t has been condemned
time and again, if not officially at least
by those whose public announcement
of its Deficiencies should have been
accepted, as the voice Ofauthority. The
fire was skillfully stayed, but at what Il
, fearful cost of men! District Chief
! John f. Egan. whose death stands
at the head of the list of fatalities, was
/ man with history. He was as ar
/ dent and fearless, as faithful and
! loyal spirit AS ever enlisted in Il
cause demanding devotion, bravery
and all manly qualities. He was
| known as one of the best inside fire
/ fighters ever in the department. He
/ been charged with recklessness,
but few know how much the property
owners and the underwriters of Boston
are indebted to his impetuosity and
unconquerable determinations There
/ was nothing of bravado III the spirit
which moved him. If his intensity of
! zeal blinded him mt times to the chances
of escape, the fault was hardly one
to he condemned, for il was something
which he could hardly himself control.
His dramatic and perilOus experience
ON the wire at the Lincoln street fire
five years ago is fresh in the memory
of Boston citizens, and time and time
again he has been an inmate of the
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vice. OF his Judgment i'll leading his
men where he did it may be best not to
inquire too closely y, and vet at the point
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