Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . cry of fire arose. He hurriedly thrustLis feet into his boots and ran out of hisstate-room to go on deck, when he sawascending, in the vicinity of the funnel,bright flames. Going on deck, he
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . cry of fire arose. He hurriedly thrustLis feet into his boots and ran out of hisstate-room to go on deck, when he sawascending, in the vicinity of the funnel,bright flames. Going on deck, he .saw thepassengers crowding toward the boats, andwent to remonstrate with them, .is many on the port side; he was endeavoring toget out the peojjle who had crowded intothe boat, in order to lower it. Immedi-ately after, the professor saw the firstengineer rush up on deck, bareheaded, tosee what was the matter. He was heardto cry out, through the engine hatch, tohis assistants, to stop the engine and setthe steam-pumps to work; at the sametime, he turned around for the purpose ofgoing down stairs himself. Nothing wasseen of him subsequent to this, but theprofessor thought he did not succeed ingetting down on account of the passenger said that lie saw theengineer, with his clothes on fire, eitherfall or throw himself overboard at aboutthe same time. The engine was not stopped, and the. of them were personally known to found, however, that they were deaf tothe voice of reason, and continued to crowdto the boats. He at once resolved, that,come what might, he would not trust him-self in any boat, as it was evident that itwould be more unsafe to do so than toremain by tlie ship. Turning around, forthe purpose of going back to the quarter-deck, he found it impossible to do so, thedock being on fire amidships,—the wholevessel amidships seeming to be in a blaze,and all communication between the foreand after parts of the ship was cut off. On first reaching the d
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