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...Where's the Daughter At?" By 4 o'clock the fireman, with feats of businesslike heroism, got control of the fire, fought on to the smoke-foul second floor, began carrying out bodies. Police lines held back parents and relatives, some standing frozen and numb, some crying hysterically. As dark fell, the watchers moved on to St. Anne's Hospital 16 blocks from the school, waited for word of dead and injured. Doctors rushed children into surgery. Nurses parted crowds to wheel beds carrying children and plasma poles. Priests moved slowly from group to group, lips moving...
Arson on the Rocks. In Apleton, Austria, Volunteer Fireman Friedrich Preiner admitted setting fire to 26 houses because alcoholic drinks are "always distributed free to the fire brigade at the scene...
...Luther ("Casey") Jones highballed the Illinois Central's Cannonball No. 1 out of Memphis an hour and 35 minutes late. His throttle hand urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared...
...possible. Although some definitely want to teach, others are not sure and some probably do not want to teach at all. But as David M. Goldberg '59 commented when asked about his motives for originating the group, "You can help put out a fire without wanting to be a fireman...
...faced fireman in dress uniform bellowed at the truck. "Wait until the band starts...