Cement Works Fire.

Chief Fillmore Tyson, of the Louisville, Ky., fire department, recently received a hurry call for assistance from the Cosmosdale Cement company, whose plant, distant 19 miles from the city, Wolf of the Central truck company, Stampley, of engine company No. 6, and Capt. R. West and Hoseman A. L. Davis, of hose company No. 8, were got out in a short time, the fourth, Davis, was not reached for about two hours, during which time those who were trying to rescue him were several times driven back by the intense heat, while he himself was nearly drowned by the floods of water that were poured upon the ruins and had reached to within a few inches of his mouth. All his body was pinned down except his head, and at last chemical were successfully used instead of water and opiates were administered to the man himself. When rescued, it was found that both his legs were broken, and he had received other serious injuries. The dead body of Partin was afterwards found terribly disfigured some feet farther in. The stop made just here by the fire department was admirable and hindered what at one time threatened to be a general wiping out of a large portion of the business section. The work done by Chief Magee’s men in the teeth of what were nearly insuperable difficulties was most highly commended.

Chief Fillmore Tyson, of the Louisville, Ky., fire department, recently received a hurry call for assistance from the Cosmosdale Cement company, whose plant, distant 19 miles from the city, Wolf of the Central truck company, Stampley, of engine company No. 6, and Capt. R. West and Hoseman A. L. Davis, of hose company No. 8, were got out in a short time, the fourth, Davis, was not reached for about two hours, during which time those who were trying to rescue him were several times driven back by the intense heat, while he himself was nearly drowned by the floods of water that were poured upon the ruins and had reached to within a few inches of his mouth. All his body was pinned down except his head, and at last chemical were successfully used instead of water and opiates were administered to the man himself. When rescued, it was found that both his legs were broken, and he had received other serious injuries. The dead body of Partin was afterwards found terribly disfigured some feet farther in. The stop made just here by the fire department was admirable and hindered what at one time threatened to be a general wiping out of a large portion of the business section. The work done by Chief Magee’s men in the teeth of what were nearly insuperable difficulties was most highly commended.