The Minnesota Pioneer

A Terrific Exploit.--A young man in the drug store of Weitzel & Co., at St. Louis, which was destroyed by fire on the night of the 1st inst., was awakened by the fire, where he was sleeping in the third story, and soon learned that his only means of escape was the skylight of the adjoining building. He passed to the adjacent roof and found no escape there. The Union says he now resorted to a desperate expedient. Cautiously letting himself down, he clung with his hands to the eaves of the building, and while in this position actually kicked open a window in the story below the roof on Commercial street, and thus obtained admittance into the building. Such an instance of remarkable daring and presence of mind has hardly its parallel in the annals of hairbreadth escapes.