Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-19 | Page 8 | Deter Mined Fireman is Three Times Overcome

'y - - I k I Vf ' " ' o or' ' " r ' ' ' -f... I -.-.OtH i - ( I Escapes Fr:n i::srital Twice zM -Returns t: Ills Duly zl Fiercc-Bl22iE2 Structure. . and "Walter Beck were the worst off. All were taken to the hospital. OKeefe,-when OKeefe,-when he found himself unobserved, slipped out and returned to the flre. A second time he was overcome, and again was sent to the hospital, but again he escaped and went back to duty. A third time he was overcome and the hospital received him again. He was put to bed and a watch placed over him. i NEW YOP.K, l.Iay 19. At a fire In a business building on Worth street last r.ight a number of firemen were more pr less severely injured. Soon after the fire was discovered a second alarm was sent in. The first .company to respond was No. 27, every member of which was hurt. , , . Six of the men seized a line of hose - and rushed Into the burning- building to the third floor, rear, occupied by the Automatic ; Vending company. Hardly had they begun to play .the water on the fire when the flamea turned and al-onost al-onost overwhelmed them. Some were unconscious for several minutes, overcome over-come by the terrible heat and stifling smoke. Comrades dragged them out. . Meanwhile other companies had arrived ar-rived and were pouring tons of water on the fifth floor. The wooden trimmings to the buildings were of pine, and they burned so fiercely that the water boiled as it was poured on the resinous stuff. Of the injured, a probationary flre-man flre-man named Ferguson. William O'Keefe