Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-13
MAN DROPPED LAMP
Ald Fire Blaycd Away al 1s1
 Seuth Main Street.

last night at tho boarding house of Samuel Liss. 261 South Main street. which destroyed something in the nsighborhood of $2.000 of property and injured two of the occupants SO badly that 1t is thought both will die. Most Of the occupants of the building were in bed when Samuel Blais. . boarder, was about to retire. but stood taking with the proprie- tor for few minutes with lighted lamp in his hand and thus engaged he let the lamp fall to the floor. MT Lize shouted to him to pick 1t up, but 1t appears that he got confused end allowed It to remain on the floor long enough for the lighted wick to reach the oil that was spilled about with the result that in few minutes the Kitchen was ablaze.
 T was. sitting at the stove" said MT Lize. the proprietor, to a Demo- crat reporter this morning. talk iug with the injured man when the thing happened. The lamp dropped out of his hand and I shouted to him to pick 1t up at once. He tried to. but he didn't succeed and the first thing I know everything was burn ing. I jumped from the chair. kick cd the blazing lamp out and then pushed Blais through the doorway and into the backyard. My wife and our two children were i'll bed in the room fronting on South Main street. and my sons wife. Mrs Fred Llze. was asleep in her room in another part of the house. Her husband hadn't come in at the time. alarmed them as quickly as pos sible and all got out safely with the exception of my sons wife who while passing through the kitchen was severely burned.'
 The fire department was notified and responded promptly. When they got there the blaze had gained con- siderable headway, but water was applied in such quantities that the flames were confined to the Lize ten- ement. The other tenants, Youmans, the bicycle man, and Ying Sing & Co, laundrymen. suffered some slight damage from water. The building belongs to Ricco Guerrero of Scovill street. The total loss is estimated at $2.000, about equally divided be- tween the building and household property. None of the latter was insured.
 Mrs Lize was badly burned on head. face, arms, body and feet. She was taken to the residence of Mir Blanchard across the way where she was attended by Dr Bellemare. The physician said to-day that he had some doubts as to whether she would recover. She is 21 years of age and is spoken of by her neighbors as a most estimable woman.
 Mir Blais remained in the rear of the building until he was picked up by Detective Keegan and taken to Nugent's pharmacy where he was att tended by Dr Lally and Dr Grady, af- ter which he was removed to the Waterbury hospital. He. is badly burned.
 There appears to be conflicting opinions as to whether the injured woman came out once all right, and 1t WAS while trying to return and get her pocketbook that she was burned. but the proprietor says this is not so. and insists that after she got out once there was no way by which she could have returned. But in any case t Is likely that the pocketbook had Something to do with the case. and if she didn't so back after it she must have lost few moments with 1t at the outset for she had it when the excitement was over.
 At the hospital this afternoon Blais was reported conscious and the doctor spoke hopefully of his recov- cry. He Is an employe of the Water bury Brass Co. He is married and has two children, but the family does not live together. Mrs Lizc was con scious this afternoon. but pr Belle mare shook his shoulders when asked if he thought she would recover. The tenement where the fire occurred was pretty well gutted and cannot be occupied until after 1t has received the attention of carpenters. paper hangers and other mechanics.