Show WERE NEWSPAPERMEN IV lw r A um Writers The lh Ln t Men nt at h Key KeyA A 4 gentleman lust Just Ju t hack from mingling with the crowd nt It Sun Sail Fran Iran Francisco deco cisco i shutters the tho story of oC heroism on oum the part of or certain r telegraph opera opra operator tor who It alleged In the dis dl pitches on the d dRY day y of or the great earth anti and fire Ire stood tood by the wire and fit message 11 out just JUI as n long an nil po sl LIt ble until driven out by br the dailies The true Irue Ilor of the tho Incident as I told to tit me mile by iy n mu friend of at the Iho parties I said mid he lie that Ihl time the men who wll stoOl stood by the wire vite wen C D V Lee LOo und amid an l Al ti 1 both bolh of oC Chicago originally but r of oC Sun Frau Fran 1 They rimey entered tho the Postal lo head when lh tin tilt fire va up lip Market mouth and sought to get Into communication with time the Cleveland lall Press fir and tho tha head hea l III in Chicago The ilia stat stated ed M that It WItS was Impossible as liS they hall had hat been ordered out of oC tho tM building by hr ii the themIre tire mIre lighters r und mind un the place adjoining Willi to tl be 0 dynamited A L few Cow emu minutes liter later all nil the dIspatchers rind fint the entire force orco deserted time the building hu I II n 1 Lee l t and anil went na as far M na the tho door and amid then Leo Lee I c said 1 I am going to 10 try 17 It anyhow stand at the tho door Ioor huh Hal I und give me mo warning For 1001 20 O minutes m Lee loe who long ago wait waft an aim operator handled tin lImit und anti It was II ho lie with whom New York talked up 11 to th lut mo rite moment ment When he tie ceased pounding the key icey It WAS WAa not the wire went down dowil but for tor or tIme the reason that ar arpa saw pa Fa the men melt who had placed the Iho dyna lYn dynamite dynamite mite mill running away lie He gave galo a n yell for tor forLee forLee Lee Itc nM anh the tho latter deserted his hl key ke anti together they rail Mil for tor their lives They Thy had barely reached a II place of oC safety when time tho dynamite exploded throwing them off oft their feet Eel Tub This Is I but tUt one of ot the tho hitherto unrecorded deeds rl Cd of ot daring on in the part parI of ot time the newspapermen In hi Frisco |