Mower County transcript., 1903-07-15

ElS/$ l5N quickly, but to the
NJ breathless crowd
:, hat now blackened
Isl every housetop and !
choked Bowen street
= ~ NJ --.----'s with mass Of up
turned white faces touched with the
glow of fire it seemed as if the COM
pany was unusually slow. Before the
ladders had reached a perpendic cular,
before they had trembled, swaying
over toward the building, a dozen faces 1
appeared at the upper windows beside
the child with her charge, beckoning
frantically for help. 5 N. as
= ''See! See therer' Barton cried again
with the same nervous tension which
he had shown since leaving his rooms.
!, A figure leaped out Of the upper win Il
dow, whirled over twice. striking the
upper extension Of the ladders, and fell
into the street. The crowd groaned.
A second figure stood out on a&WindoW
sill and, throwing up it's arms, with q
shrill cry more beastly than human,
flung itself out toward the ladders now
leaning over toward the building. 1t
was a woman. She actually touched
one Of the ladder rounds with her fn-
gers and for second the crowd
thought she had grasped it, but for
only a second. The body shot down
ward, and Barton and Gordon closed
their eyes and involuntarily put their
hands up over their ears to shut out the:
horrible sound. 4 Again the crowd
groaned, and wild beast yell arose.
f'""The life blanket" some one shrek
ed, and it was only after the whole.
thing was history that Bowen street
learned that owing to the narrow
courts and the broken pavements the
department was fatally hindered in all
it's movements and the wagon carrying
the life blanket had overturned at a
corner, killing the driver and manning
one Of the horses so that it had to be
shot. Make out another Indictment for
murder against a municipality which
deliberately robs the people of it's
rights il sTder to keep the wheels OF
the political machine moving. What
are human lives compared with the
spoils of Office and the plunder that is a
part Of political service to the powers
that be? sz4 <. . !; 35.4, .; .s;55. f
The ladder fell oyer and touched the
window sill where the child of: the
tenements was sfanding. with her hnr- h,
don and +han q scane occurred that
will never leave John Gordon as long
as no toils IN 1haarinp h,,m,anr, r,,v.res woes IN
his brave and hlpedinp heart I. ll%3,.E5
mo child suddenly d;s.1,,,aa rod ana "A
n he,. ,,a q co,,la n soa1, ~ s, Z, .nd
> woman : + iohtin . wild tha, sts For
+hn fret cha ncoe a+. tbo adds, yuh;ch Is
rested III tba si1lssA : ~, i, ,,y.s o,inah
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maddened f,phtars ~ tha other win. win
dows wild S35imnlorinp faces hnoocnd ds IN
ponv for 1ifa r4pn orn forns ,rn,n ,,y,
seen to iumn from the iwin avs 4, II 10
corner "a rthests from tha n t,da,5 5rrha
fire. wa ! nov bursting thronpl, the roof
and one group j from the window y next p-tt
the fighters above Sthe ladder ri, ia al
az If . floor ha q given wa "a i this q
Tho faw saconds ! it= tonE ~ IL h,,,,,od
into Gordo IN III dnta ho, IA
% u tha Ia AZ Or rico ~ 8 !,
as Il some Ola q hand had rnsho = o.
back - rose nntil 3 stood q stra ipht tho
SOLITARY tip,,ra of t,1e 4 = silhn,,,et-
ted a,painst tha .h1a zi,, J, q IA Sthon
thn antira front ,of M, hnnso7 IT;t,,1(,,, !,
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