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Show FIREMEN BADLY SCORCHED. Cowardly Men on the Ground Left Their Posts. East St. Louis, 111. Four firemen, hoisted In nn electric crano twenty feet nhovo flvo enormous furnaces at BH tho American Foundry company's HH plant, fighting a fire on tho roof, were left stranded half an hour because- the J men operating tho crane beenmo frightened nnd left their post. Tho HBJ heat from tho furnaces and burning HBJ roof beenmo nlmost unbearable, and BBJ for half an hour tho firemen pleaded BBJ to bo let down. At last Fireman Mllto Bulllvnn, In desperation, Jumped tn BBJ tho ground between tho seething fur. BBJ nnces, throw 11 ropo to his comradci BB and they descended, badly blistered. BB |