The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-12
BRIDGE FIRE FIGHTER HURT.
CHIEF GUERIN ONE or 20 CAUGHT
ny A GAS EXPLOSION.
Was on the Manhattan Tower All NIGHT
Monday and Was III With Pieurisy
When He Went to the Afternoon Fire
Wouldn't Take Ether for Operation.

Wouldn't Take Ether for Operation.
Battalion Chief William Guerin, who led
the first fremen to the East River Bridge
on Monday night and who stayed on the
Manhattan tower until o'clock yesterday
morning. was the most seriously OF the
twenty-odd persons hurt by an explosion
OF gas that followed a fire in the basement
Of the seven-story tenement at i2l Avenue
{ yesterday afternoon.
Guerin was on the sidewalk, directing
the men of Hook and Ladder II. who we're
tearing down some charred woodwork.
when the explosion came He was blown
twenty feet away. landing on his head in
the middle of the street. His driver, Patrick
Moran. who was standing beside him was
found lying nearby.
Guerin was bleeding freely from a cash
in his scalp and was unconscious. Moran
was also badly cut, but did not lose con-
sciousness. Capt. German Of the Union
Market police station, whose men had been
ordered TO the fire, was the first to see
Guerin and shouted
Get some kind of wagon quick and tai Q
the man to the hospital before he bleeds to
death"
Put him into his own buggy and I'll drive
TO the hospital" said Moran, who seemed
to have forgotten his own injuries.
Both the chief and his driver were pu'
into the carriage and another fireman
drove them to st Francis Hospital. DR..
Kamnerer OF the Cornell Medical College,
visiting surgeon at the hospital, took
look at Guerin and ordered him TO the
operating room at once, There II was
found that about three inches OF Guerin
scalp had been ripped from the skull aid
that his face, hands and one ear were badly
lacerated. Before the examination was
completed. Chief Guerin had regained con-
sciousness. When he saw what was going
on he promptly refused to take an a. %
thetic. While the surgeon and his
sistants were at work he never made a
sound to indicate that he was In the least
uncomfortable
A couple OF hours after the operation.
and when it was difficult to get a good look
81 the chiefs face on account OF the band
ages. he told to a Sun man this account
OF how it happened.
1T was just like any other ordinary
tenement cellar fire. We had II practically
out when we discovered that gas was
made. ] ordered the men back and opened
up the cellar to let In the air
After we thought the gas was all out
a squad Of men from the truck company
went down to overhaul the place and plug
up the gaspipes. There must have been
a blanket Of gas up under the ceiln ana
when the men started tearing at the plas-
tering some sparks were thrown out and
caused the explosion.
II was 81 standing on the sidewalk with
my driver. Patrick Moran watching them.
and the last remember we were blown
into the street.
After the operation and while the surgeons
were binding up the other' cuts and bruises
che, eSss nG rss s fTo porous p"'teT on the
What are those there for?" asked Dr.
kamerer.
-Oh. guess caught a little cold at tho
bridge FIRE last night. When | got bat X
10 the house this morning that side panied
me- and | just put those on.
The doctors made an examination and
found a well-develoyed cae 81 pleurisy,
which they said would soon have developed
into pneumonia.
severe decorations of@he face and hands
He was patched up and went back to his
quarters The most seriously INJURED besides
Chief Guerin was Polio man John Darrow OF
the Union Market station, In addition to
cuts on the head face and hands a piece
OF glass struck him In the left leg pene-
trating far enough To sever O small artery
lie was taken to New York Hospital.
None Of the others injured received any
thing more serious than cuts and bruises,
and most of them were cared for in the
street or at their homes, Those injured
were.
AHRgas - Truck II.
bALoyon IARnr. q, 2h Fast seventh street;
BssaiSigR c ,ptain OF Truck II
iLrasnRo' sAcoB. TO- iii Avenue C; Bellevue
hospital.
D'NS. THOMAS, Engine "a
,ioLDsrEIs, josEra. Is. ?a Fast seventh street.
q IIsiS, WILLIAM, Bs,,alon Chief 81, frnncis's
hISss, JOIN $40 Eas, Sin,h street.
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ifpfP. ApoLrH 20, treat Wiaispr Hotel. Chatham
NsiLr John. Trucl, II.
L'ri AL'XASniI, ~ Avenue Goat
MCGOWAN, JOHN. Engine =.
McLluuHiIN, JOHN, 3i2 Second street.
AlILLEa. JoHs, Engine %
MORAN, PATRICK. driver for battalion Chief
oNsrL wuAIAm Fire Patrol Lieutenant,
pIi.HR, AMELIA. II. 63s Flf,h street. New York
PorTER. Inland, Truck H.,
SHIELDS, SYLvksrkn, hngnc IS
SrEvEL, ISAAC. 90 Avenue c.
The Are was discovered a few minutes
before 4 O'Clock. gasf,ter was Mt work
in the basement trying TO locate leak
In a gaspipe. The basement was in u'c
as a coal and wood shop 10y Adolfo Peppino
The Sasfittcr had been al work but few
minutes, when he ran to the street and
yelled that there was fire.
How IL started nobody could tell, but
1t didn't take the firemen long 70 put 1t
out Then they tried TO turn on the. gas
from the street, but the stopcocks wouldn't
work and a force OF men from the Depart
ment OF Buildings. Lighting and Supplies
had to dig up the street before the gas
could be shut on
The explosion blew out the fronts Of the
cigar store on the ground floor and Of the
store on each side Glass In the windows
of the buildings across the street was also
broken. The damage Is estimated at about
5000
The fire Indirectly caused one death
After the explosion Rachel Rosenberg,
~ years old who lived in one OF the flats
In the building. became frightened and
started to get out unassisted. She fell on
the stairs and broke her leg. Her son and
daughter refused to allow her to be taken
to a hospital, 40 the leg was set at her home.
She died from the shock last night
Two women Kidnap Roy from school.
WnKEs-BARRE, Pa, Nov. ii.-Six-year-
old George Kahler was kidnapped at Dur
yea yesterday by two women and no trace
OF the boy or the women has yet been
found, He was on the steps OF the school.