Excerpt from The Story of the Great Fire: Boston, November 9-10, 1872 And when the ground changed from the level to an incline the run became a walk; but nearing the fire, catching a view of the lofty building, white with flames, they dart forward with deafening shouts, the perspiration oozing from every pore, wheel the eu gines up to the hydrants, uncoil long lines of hose, rear ladders against the walls, and begin the unequal battle, -unequal because the enemy is high above them, and has made such headway that though ten minutes have hardly passed it is plain it will be no ordinary contest between fire and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.