No Comfort for the Lost
“Nick ran toward the blazing buildings, his sore head throbbing in rhythm with the pounding of his feet. His arm, wrapped in an improvised sling, didn’t feel much better. He’d rather be nursing it and the knot on his skull with a few stiff slugs of whiskey. But when he’d heard the city hall bell indicating a fire in Chinatown, Nick had been convinced the anti-coolie hooligans were following through on their promise to burn out the immigrants.
A horse-drawn hose reel clattered past him, its bell ...ringing to forge a path through the gawkers crowding the cobblestones. It pulled alongside the steam engine from Company One, which had already hooked up to the hydrant at the corner. Firemen, their red shirts soaked with sweat from the fire’s heat, trained the water hose on the flames. A laundry was on fire, along with the saloon next door.
“You have to save my shop!” yelled a white storekeeper, gesturing wildly to where sparks and ash were raining down on his jewelry store.
A clutch of Chinese men had collected buckets and futilely tossed water onto the laundry shop even as it dissolved in a wall of flames.MoreLess
A horse-drawn hose reel clattered past him, its bell ...ringing to forge a path through the gawkers crowding the cobblestones. It pulled alongside the steam engine from Company One, which had already hooked up to the hydrant at the corner. Firemen, their red shirts soaked with sweat from the fire’s heat, trained the water hose on the flames. A laundry was on fire, along with the saloon next door.
“You have to save my shop!” yelled a white storekeeper, gesturing wildly to where sparks and ash were raining down on his jewelry store.
A clutch of Chinese men had collected buckets and futilely tossed water onto the laundry shop even as it dissolved in a wall of flames.MoreLess
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