The Fires That Changed America: Second Edition by Griffith Patrick & Northrop Henry & Everett Marshall

Author:Griffith, Patrick & Northrop, Henry & Everett, Marshall [Griffith, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-07-11T21:00:00+00:00

A UNIVERSITY STUDENT'S STORY.

Equally damaging testimony was given by Fred H. Rea, 3231 South Park Avenue, a student at the Northwestern University Dental School. After telling of the scenes when “death alley” was bridged by planks and ladders thrust from the school windows he told of the death jam on the fire escapes.

Rea's story was one of the most graphic told which narrated the horrors of Death's Alley, and the narrow escape of those who were fortunate enough to be rushed over the planks thrown to them from the University building. It was not only a story, but an additional evidence of the total lack of preparation for the meeting of just such an emergency.

“At the time the fire broke out I was in the Northwestern University building on the third floor in the law school,” he said. “I heard something that sounded like an explosion and all the students present immediately ran to the lecture room. There we met some painters who were repairing the ceiling in the corridor. They joined us, bringing with them three planks and ladders. These planks we placed from the back window of the lecture room across to the upper landing of the gallery. One ladder was placed across from the fire escape of the lecture room to the second landing. Across the ladder, I think, only one person came, as the flames from the exit were so hot that nobody could reach it.”

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