Show AN EXCITING INGI INCIDENT DENT AND or MIND last eve ning shortly before 9 what might hise hive been a very disastrous fire occurs d at the thy house of brother joseph of the ath th ward ile lle was absent attending a meeting an amt ami dairs airs was silbina sll sit tina at the table in the centre OL 01 a room when bu suddenly the lamp batup hanging directly ov over erthe the table fell with a crash and covered her ber and the table cloth and portions ol of the carpet with blazing coal oil she sprang up much frightened and passed ed her hand down her clothes in faast front ron to extinguish the blaze but to no effect she then ran into an adjoining room seized a bucket of water and aar das dashed ac d it down the front portion of her clochin clothing in the meantime janet me mc slurring Sl Al who lives ilves in a house but a few steps distant attracted by the tiie cries of the children came rushing over with her baby in her arms taking in the situation a at t a glance she hastily laid th the e child down and tore the clothing from sister mc person it being still in fl flames aines arnes after mrs 31 was out of clanger danger janet turned her attention to the b burning urn room where the tire nire was makin making rapid progress she rushed over to her own house seized a pair of large double blankets instantly rf returned and put them on the carpet where the blaze was largest this proving to be insufficient she stripped herself of her own skins skirts and after great exertion succeeded in smothering the fire by this time some odthe of the nel nei neighbors ebors came III in but were too late to ac render ader any service in arresting the devouring element one of them however raised e a portion ort on 0 of t the e blanket ian lan et from the floor when the flames llames burst afresh and the blanket blanket was immediately replaced no cause is assigned for the falling of the hanging lamp unless something pom mom ething az simply gave pave way the only bodily injury received was by sister mcmurrin Me MurrIn ln whose right ha hand I 1 id was somewhat severely burnh burned in t trying ry to eatn extinguish u ios ils h her clothing the carpet able tablecloth c th blankets and the clothes used to cover the fire were badly burned but it I 1 is a matter of ise that the results were not more surd surg ser serious on the courage presence of mind and promptness of action on the part of both the ladies are such as are rarely exhibited |