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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1903)
Editors in Convention What The Bee Staff Artist Saw of the N. E. A. Meeting - '" - J " ... j... i , ... t 1 J ' --jwi-. , .,.,,,,, ' ,..,-. r;r .-,-.ia & ..?r' ti.TOgKSft rf'K-yWatMl'& . 3 Lo 'tftrg& 'M er- ..' to GROUP OF THE EDITORS IN FRONT OF THE CRElGTrTON-ORPHEUM TH HATER r Vl- 1 ill' II 1 ,1 Si J AT TUB LIVK STOCK. EXCHANGE UUILDINO, SOUTH OMAHA. Daily Life of a Fireman (Continued from Pago Eight.) pinioned to the lower floor. It was either certain death to Tresler or It was probabl death to those who would rescue him. Chlet Baiter realized that It was elx men or one man that he would lose. But the chief did not have to order men to go for Tresler. It was a volunteer crowd of brave firemen who risked their lives to save a brother. They rushed into that blazing furnace and they dragged Tresler out, more dead than a'.lve. But they saved him, and for weeks many of them wore scars as evidence of that brave charge. People have wondered, no doubt, at the alacrity with which a fireman obeys the orders of his chief. They have heard the chief give an order and they have seen a company of firemen rush into a building through smoke and fire and breaking glass. With apparently no thought of danger. The fireman doesn't think of the danger from fire, for the simple reason that he knows that his chief knows Just where he sent him and just where he Is. He knows that his chief and his officers are not only en glneerlng the fire fighting, but are also looking after the safety of the men. If the fireman didn't have confidence In his Chief and in the officers of the department It would take only a very short time to disrupt the department. The Avery fire of just few days ago waa a demonstration in a small way of th dangers that firemen have to undergo. The building on two sides is surrounded by railroad tracks. Three stories of the build ing are below the level of the viaduct and two above it Around the building are numberless telegraph and telephone wires. The fire waa In the fifth story. From this etory broken window glass was falling and smashing all around the firemen who were running up the long ladder. This could not be started from the ground for a foundation, but Its foundation waa a plat form beside the building. Hundreds of peo ple saw those firemen as they reached the top of the building with the ladder. They aw the men hammer away at those win dows in the Bushman building which joins the Avery, They aaw men rush through those broken wlndowa Into the burning rooma. They saw the flames aa they 1 V i I ' 1.5 i ... ' m - ' ', t r : i ? . I jr. I; . m, ? 'w m r r.-r.- - BOARD IN Q THE TROLLET TRAINS FOR A TRIP. rushed from many wlndowa, leaping Into the air and angrily lashing the side of the building. Gradually the flames were sub dued. They grew smaller and smaller, then flickered and were out. A building whoso destruction was almost a certainty from the standpoint of a spectator was aaved with only nominal damage done. The danger that beset the fireman and the uncertainty of his life Is best told In this memorandum taken from the records of the fire chief's office: September 24, 1878, the destruction of the Grand Central hotel on the site now oc cupied by the Fax ton hotel, by the falling of a floor these firemen loat their Uvea: Lervls Wilson, Alonzo Randall, John Lee, William McNamara and Henry Lockfleld. The death of Captain Carter occurred at a fire In the Paxton annex on the same site April 12, 1891. He, with four others, were on a ladder when the wall fell In, Injuring the others seriously and causing the captain's death the next day. Two firemen lost their lives hi the Shlverick fire June 3, 1893. These were Captain Charles V. Cox and Plpeman John D. Oury. These with others were on a ladder trying to get to the top of the building when a portion of the west wall fell. Both were taken from the ruina deaoV In October of the same year another fatal fire occurred. This was the Farnam the ater, In which fire Alfred O. Gyreum lost his life. His body was not recovered until the next day. IJeutenant Ely F. Kling waa thrown from a truck while going to a Fumam street fire and killed October I, 1898. June 18, 1899, Lieutenant Ruane lost oil life by an explosion at a fire. August . 1899 came the Mercer Chemical company Are, In which these men loat (Continued on Pago Fifteen.)