Show FIREMEN BADLY SCORCHED Cowardly Men on the Ground Left Their Posts East St Louis IllFour firemen hoisted in an electric crane twenty feet above five enormous furnaces at I the American Foundry companys plant fighting a fire on the roof wero left stranded half an hour because tho men operating the crane became frightened and left their post Tho heat from the furnaces and burning roof became almost unbearable and for half an hour the firemen pleaded to be let down At last Fireman Mike Bulllvan In desperation jumped to the ground between the seething furnaces fur-naces threw a rope to his comrades I and they descended badly blistered |