Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 592
FIGHTING FIRE IN A COTTON-WAREHOUSE. fall to the ground or bottom floor in one enor-mous pile. Here, saturated with the waterthrown on the fire, the grain begins to swell, and when the firemen notice a peculiar bulging outof the lower part of the building they know it istime to retreat to a safe… … - It A COTTON-VV.\RKHC)U.-.E, SHOUI.NGCfll.LAPSED WALLS. ing is generally followed by the collapse of theroof and the crashing out of the walls on eachside. Sprinkler-pipes, a device for automati-cally releasing a spray of water at any part of afloor or loft the instant a fire starts, have…
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