GALLANT RESCUE AY A FIREMAN.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 877, 21 October 1871, Page 2

GALLANT RESCUE AY A FIREMAN.

Between two and three yesterday morning . the inhabitants of Whitechapel Road, London, were thrown into a great state of excitement by hearing screams apparently proceeding from the premises of Mr Levy, a greengrocer and fruiterer, carrying on business at No. 1. in the above road. In the course of a few minutes immense sheets of flame shot forth from the windows of the first and second floor of the back. The screams of the inmates still continuing, and the fire gaining ground every moment, the flames having burst through the roof, the fireman in charge of the Whitechapel escape placed his machine in front of the building, and, one of the rooms on the first floor not having yet caught fire, he succeeded in forcing his way to an upper floor, and there found two children nearly suffocated. He seized them, and carried them down the escape in his arms, and handed them to a neighbour. He again went into the burning bouse, and found six other persons i unable to escape. He rapidly passed them one by one down the escape, thus saving them from a fearful death. The fire was not extinguished till the house was almost burnt out. The origin of the fire is not known.—"Daily News," Aug. 23.