rth
floor. His comrades tried to rescue him by lowering Fireman Henry Bond
into the smoke by the heels; they were unsuccessful and Bond broke his
arm in the attempt. The fire was confined to the lower floors of the two
buildings and extinguished. In searching for MacBane, the firemen found
him suffocated on the fourth floor where he had fallen.

The feature of the story is evidently the one death and the three
injuries. Our lead might be written as follows:

| One fireman was suffocated and three |
|other persons were injured in a fire in |
|the Incandescent Light Company's plant, |
|383-385 Sixth street, and an adjoining |
|three-story building, late yesterday |
|afternoon. |

This lead would suggest to the reader many interesting details to come
in the body of the story, and evidently the details are not all of equal
importance. The story could be told in its logical order, but, since the
death is more interesting than the origin of the fire and the injuries
are more significant than how the fire spread, it is obvious that it
would not be best to tell the story in the order in which it is told
above.

Disregarding the lead, we must cover the following details in the body
of our story:

Description of buildings and occupants.
Origin of fire.
Discovery of fire.
Spread of flames.
Injury of Mrs. Jones.
Rescue of Hilda Schultz.
Death of MacBane.
Injury of Bond.
Fire extinguished.

This is the order in which things occurred at the fire. However, in our
lead, we have drawn attention to our story by announcing that it
concerns a fire in which a man was killed; the death therefore should
have first place in the body of the story. Hence, in the second
paragraph immediately after the lead, we must tell how MacBane fell
through the skylight and was suffocated. Along with his death we may as
well tell how Bond broke his arm trying to rescue MacBane. Our lead has
also announced two other injuries and, hence, they must be included
next--that is, our third paragraph must be devoted to the injury of Mrs.
Jones and the rescue of the unconscious Hilda. But as yet our details
are hanging in the air because we have not said anything about the
buildings or the fire itself. In the next paragraph it would be well to
describe the buildings and their occupants and to give a very