A Heroic Act
Yesterday when the fireman went upstairs and told Jim
Crocker, the colored engineer, that the blow pipe valve of the big boiler in
Clark’s factory was giving way, Jim didn’t do a thing but rush down and stand
on it until the fireman could pull the fire from the box and thus relieve the
strain. If the steam had blown out and sent the water over the building this
might have been ruined and the flues strained, or an explosion might have
occurred, which would have endangered lives. If it had blown out with Jim
standing on it, he would have been scalded to death, but that did not deter
Jim. He stood to his post and did something one man out of a thousand would not
have done. It was a heroic act.
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