Drunken men, suddenly roused, reeled fighting and blaspheming into the court.

Thieves plied their trade even on their panic-stricken neighbours, and fell to blows over the plunder.

Still more terrible was the cry to others who remained within.
Children, huddled into corners, heard that cry, and it glued them where they stood.

The sick and the crippled heard it, and made one last effort to rise and escape.

Even the aged and bedridden, deserted by all, when they heard it, lay shouting for some one to help.
The flames, pent-up at first and reddening the sky sullenly through the smoke, suddenly freed themselves and shot up in a wild sheet above the court.