Show tad adventurers CLUB I 1 k HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF stream of death ELLO EVERYBODY HELLO maurice dunford of chicago is distinguished in he was a volunteer fire fighter and smoke ethlar r in the little town of russelville Russ elville ark in 1929 when his adventure happened it was a quiet warm summer afternoon in the little town that nestled in a valley at the foot of the ozarks close to the bank of the arkansas river every one was dozing and taking life easy but suddenly the fire siren let out a shrieking blast that brought the whole town to life maury made a rush for the station firemen from all over the town were running to the same point they poured into the building and the big truck rolled out even before the sound of the siren had died away the burning building was only two blocks from the fire house it was a small dwelling and the fire was in the attic maury says that smoke was pouring from under every shingle he grabbed a line from a coupling and went around to the back of the house looking for an opening through which to get at the fire then seeing no openings he went into the house dragged the hose up through a small trap door to in the ceiling and crawled with it into the attic fighting fire in the attic the heat and smoke were terrific he says 1 I started creeping brough rd so I 1 could get at the seat of the blaze water was now belch brough the nozzle in my hands and the boys outside were playing g A rt f maury even move a muscle he even turn aroura another hose the water from that hose was drenching me but it was doing little toward putting out the fire the little attic was fairly flooded with water now more that water tater was hot it felt as if it was cooking my knees says maury tor for I 1 was kneeling in it between the sills with my head bent down to my chest to keep as much smoke out of my lungs as possible and then it happened he felt as if something had grabbed him all at once he tried to look around and found that he he simply move a muscle his whole body was stiff it exactly trembling but it felt to maury as if something was trembling inside of him giving him the shaking up of his life AU all at once he realized what it was an electric shock paralyzed by electric current where was the shock coming from he had stepped on no wires there any wiring anywhere within tn ten feet of him it took maury a minute or two to figure that out the hosel that stream of water had found a bare electric wire somewhere back there in the smoke and flame the electricity was traveling down the stream to the nozzle and maury was gripping that nozzle with both hands his wet clothes and the water soaked floor were completing the hookup hook up that was sending the voltage through his body he tried to move the hose divert the stream of water away from that wire but he budge an inch he tried to drop the nozzle fit tor for the life of him he let go of it he tried to use his Q i e an and d that worked somehow his vocal cords paralyzed by the flow of electricity and he shouted at the top of his lungs shut off the juice he was yelling but he think any one could hear him over the bedlam and confusion of sounds that came up to him from below the pain was getting terrible he says every joint every muscle every bone in my body was aching smoke was choking blinding me I 1 was held there by that shock as immovable as it if id been chained there what was I 1 to do what was going to happen to me was I 1 going to stand there until the fire crept over and burned me alive or would I 1 succumb to the shocks of the electricity before the fire reached me some one pulled the switch maury knew that even house current could kill a man under the proper conditions and he was sure that current would kill him it if he held on long enough the pain was getting worse by the minute he felt as if he were about to lose consciousness but he fought that giddy feeling that was making his head spin round and round once he let go of himself well he knew that would be the end and then all of a sudden maury felt his body relax he tried to move found that he could and turned the nozzle upward some one S tails had pulled the main switch shutting off all the current in wk Up guilding building luil ding and hed done it just in time to save maury from collapse apse and probably from death says he the force of the upturned stream of water battered through the root roof shingles went flying sunshine came pouring in and I 1 felt like a million dollars copyright service lc art of has long survived in venice has been associated with the venetians for more than years in the city ot of venice since about the year 1000 glassman ers have expressed in their designs something of the splendor of the city its gayety gaiety and sparkling color the guild of glass makers was established on the island of 0 murano in the adriatic during the the furnaces have never been transferred from that little hidden spot and the industry has had a continuous history that is full of interest both on the artistic and human side reached a high development in venice during the crusades and continued an all through the days of venetian power and glory through days of misfortune in the history of this city notes alice R rollins in the los angeles times the furnaces at one time were almost extinguished but in the nineteenth century the craft was revived and many of the early traditions which had been preserved were followed more than any other of the arts that were brought to such high development in venice seems to have been a peculiar product of her environment it is characterized by gracefulness in form and an especial ethereal quality in color and texture it seems to take on something of the charm of the sea and the softly sparkling atmosphere |