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Show fMImm?s: CORPSE GODS ' TON LAST RUN TO FIRE Traittcd Ilorscs to. IIosc Cart .Hearse DksH to Blaze When Alarm Sounds. LA CUOSSE. Wis., Dec. 29. Dramatic Drama-tic Incidents occurred during the burial of Thomas Ploof, th oldest fireman in the Jj& Crosse department.. Muffled Are balls at all the Buttons were tolling a the proceselorr slowly, pasted through the streets. On a hearse, Improvised from a hose cart and ' appropriately draped,, was the casket containing the body of the old fire-fighter. . It 'wii drawn by a magnificent team of fire horses, and fast aa It wia passing Cen- tral Are station the bells clanged out an alarm. At the same instant the doors t'wurlg.open and out dashed the large aerial truck drawn by three horses. It collided with the improvised hearse, pushing It lo-lLe cult-:: . The horses drawing the hearse righted themselves.' and, the hearse linked to the aerial truck, tha five horses dashed madly to the scene of the fire, several blocks distant. - - Walking Decide. the hearee . andthe first three carriages were two files of firemen. The clang of tha alarm got In their bipod as well and they swung on the truck and hoea cart as the horses collided for the sensational run. The crowded, street beheld the peculiar spectacle of hearse and pallbearers racing rac-ing furiously through the streets,' while the untrained - horses i drawing - the mourners' carriages continued to plod on, unmindful of the call of duty. Whirling andi Swaying, as. it daehed over the Uneven streets, the coffin of the old fire-fighter bore Itself well arid members of the department, discussing the remarkable Incident, agreed that nothing could have been more appropriate appro-priate or more to th-liking of Thomas Ploof than that he should have had one , more run before being laid to rest. . . |