|
|Thomas Green, 1111 Grand street; face |
|cut by flying glass. |
| |
|James Brown, 176 Orchard avenue; |
|internal injuries; may die. |

(c) _Manner of Death._--A number of fatalities at the beginning always
attracts attention. Not infrequently the manner or the cause, especially
in the case of a single death, is worth the first place in the lead--not
as "One man killed----" but as "Crushed beneath a falling wall, a man
was killed." If a man burns to death in a very unusual way, or for an
unusual reason, we are more interested in the way he was burned, or the
reason that he burned, than in the mere fact that he was burned to
death. The first line then tells us how or why he was burned. Thus:

| To save his money, which he hoped would|
|some day raise him from the rank of a |
|laborer to that of a prosperous merchant,|
|Hing Lee, a Chinese laundryman, ran back |
|into his burning laundry at 3031 Nicollet|
|avenue today, after he was once safe from|
|the flames, and was so badly burned that |
|physicians say he cannot |
|live.--_Minneapolis Journal._ |

=2. Injuries.=--Very often no one is killed in a fire but some one is
injured. For example, five firemen are overcome by ammonia fumes or two
men are seriously injured by a falling wall. This then becomes the
feature. Injuries to human beings, if serious or in any considerable
number, take precedence over other features, just as loss of human life
does. Here is an example from the press in which all the injuries are
gathered together at the beginning:

| Six firemen and two laborers were |
|overcome by smoke, while three other |
|firemen received minor injuries by flying|
|glass in a fire which broke out yesterday|
|morning at 10:30 o'clock in the |
|Wellauer-Hoffman building, at, |
|etc.--_Milwaukee Free Press._ |

=3. Rescues.=--(a) _Number of People Rescued._--When people are rescued
from great danger in a fire their escape makes a very good feature. If
many of them are rescued or escape very narrowly, the m