Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1910 — Snake Crawled Into Hose [ARTICLE]

Snake Crawled Into Hose

During Tumult at Fire In Cincinnati Reptile Took Refuge In iFire pargtus. Cincinnati. —Capt. “Billy” Thompson and fire crew 39 were seated in the engine bouse at Clarion avenue and Montgomery road, Evanston, when a succession of yells came from the cellar, where Pipeman William Geh; 'ugpr was fixing up a hose nozzle. The firemen rushed downstair! and found Gehringer pointing to an immense black snake that had coiled in one corner and, as it had no _ieans of escape, evidently meant to fight. Captain Thompson and Lieutenant Perry Doyle put an end to the snake’s ‘<ife with clubs. .... When measured it was found that the serpent was a few inches over five feet in length. Captain Thompson says that the company went out to a email fire in a foundry oo Northside avenue a few days ago and, after the blaze was extinguished, the hose was unwound and laid for some minutes in tho high grass and weeds adjoining the building before it was placed la Ilia vtxoc . *

He is of the opinion that the snake, frightened by the tumult attending the fire, crawled into the hose and was carried to the engine house, where it crawled out when the hose was hung in the chute to dry.