Fleet Fire by L. J. Davis

Author:L. J. Davis [DAVIS, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611456592
Publisher: Arcade
Published: 2012-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

There appeared in the doorway one of the best operators we had, who worked daytime, and who was of a very quiet disposition except when intoxicated,,,, His eyes were bloodshot and wild, and one sleeve had been torn away from his coat. Without noticing either of us he went up to the stove and kicked it over. The stove-pipe fell, dislocated at every joint. It was half full of exceedingly fine soot, which floated out and filled the room completely. This produced a momentary respite to his labors. When the atmosphere had cleared sufficiently to see, he went around and pulled every table away from the wall, piling them on top of the stove in the middle of the room. Then he proceeded to pull the switchboard away from the wall It was held tightly by screws. He succeeded, finally, and when it gave way he fell with the board, and striking on a table cut himself so that he soon became covered with blood. He then went to the battery-room and knocked all the batteries off on the floor. The nitric acid soon began to combine with the plaster in the room below, which was the public receiving-room for messengers and bookkeepers. The excess nitric acid poured through and ate up the account-books. After having finished everything to his satisfaction, he left.1

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