Show THE DREADED BACK draft ossis oa t tb be wort aril 11 that C confront sif iss the 1 I 1 it to a dangerous cellar fire nothing ie Is more dreaded by the be mea men than hat what Is known in their on town lan ian guage as the back draft this ie Is a adda sudden veering at 0 the flames usually 11 caused by the burning aay away of some portion ot of the building that gives th the ore fire renewed draft and changes if its course coin completely plemely ely the firemen arrive and lad and the whole w cond or third floor of a building in blames axe are in n lind band hand they smash open the doors and with the hose dash up the stairway this 1 Is all afire and the flames are at 0 rolling above like a red pall with wit h the engine at work and bood e on the I 1 line ine the battle beaw beaven en the iro i r o a elements ele menta fire and sater begins inch by inch the men fight their way up the now to retreat a as the fire fains gains upon elern anil and now to ad ranee vance it 11 euils away for or a moment the encouraging w ward iris of the corn manding officer ati at ai i beard behind them urging thorn them on now set get in boyst boys that a it get inget in get in int make the next landtau land tag hig lilt it up boys and all the other words of 0 encourage went that he gives 1 they finally reach the landing they are re on the floor door with the are it rolls toward them an impenetrable wall of fire the deadly back draft their only chance of at escape Is to to throw themselves upon their faces in hoe hoje that it may roll over ever then them or to hurl down the males stairs up which they hare have eo ro gallantly fought their way setter better a broken leg or arm than death by roasting and the water of fifty engines could never stay the pro grees gress of that awful ware wave of flame many it brave fellow has lost bla his life in thia this manner manners and very often all the members of at a it company return wit with h their eyebrows hair and beard singed off bearing evidence that they have been ketchel 4 as they their express it by a 11 lei less terrible form of this deadly draft St nicholas Mc holas |