(1)
Overcoats used as life nets saved
the lives of a dozen women and children
last night when fire, believed
to be of incendiary origin, gutted the
three-story frame tenement at 137
Hoverton Avenue, Brooklyn.
(2)
Rotten hose, which burst as fast as
it was put in use, imperiled the lives
of firemen today in a fire that destroyed
the foundry of the National
Tubing Co., Wilson and Pierce
Streets.
(3)
More than 300 chickens and ducks
were cremated last night in a blaze
in the basement of the meat market
of John Holton, 16 Erie Street.
(4)
To rescue his money, which he
hoped would raise him from the rank
of workman to that of merchant, Woo
Wing Lee, Chinese laundryman, 3031
Nicollet Avenue, ran back into his
burning laundry today and was so
badly burned that physicians say he
cannot live.
Fire Stories. After the lead has been completed,
the main part of the story remains to be written. The
structure of the body of the story offers no particular
difficulties in arrangement as the incidents usually follow
each other in the order of time. In the account of
a fire, it is usual, after the lead, to give the facts concerning
the discovery of the fire, the sounding of the
alarm, the arrival of the fire department, the progress
of the fire, and the different incidents, with little or no
variation from chronological order.
