'clock last night. The |
|fire was at length kept from spreading |
|and the neighboring residences were |
|reoccupied. |

Or to take an incident from the daily press in which the neighbors were
not so fortunate; although they might have entirely lost their homes:

| Twenty-two families in the six-story |
|tenement at 147 Orchard street were |
|routed out of the house twice early today|
|by fires which caused a great deal of |
|smoke, but little real damage.--_New York|
|Mail._ |

=1. Death.=--(a) _Number of Dead._--The most usual attendant
circumstances that will come to our notice is death in the fire. Let us
say that Mr. Jones's three children were alone in the house and burned
to death. Their death would be of more interest to us than the burning
of their father's house--and our story would necessarily begin in this
way:

| Three children were burned to death in |
|a fire which destroyed the home of their |
|father, John H. Jones, 78 Liberty street,|
|last night. |

So common is death in connection with fire that almost every day's paper
contains one or more stories beginning "Ten persons were cremated----"
or "Four firemen were killed----" And in every case the loss of human
life is considered of greater importance than any other incident in the
story, and the number of dead always takes precedence over many another
startling feature. Here are a few examples:

| JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Jan. 18.--Seven men |
|were cremated in a fire that burned to |
|the ground three double houses near |
|Berlin, Somerset County, early this |
|morning.--_New York Sun._ |

| Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard |
|Lindberg, 3328 Nineteenth avenue south, |
|were cremated in a fire which destroyed |
|their home shortly after 12 o'clock |
|yesterday. The children had been left |
|alone in the house, shut up in their |
|bedroom, etc.--_St. Paul Pioneer Press._ |

| One fireman was killed, another fireman|
|and a woman were injur