Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-23
WORK FOR FIRE MEN
Two Fires h rweuIy.iour Hours
 Kept Them Busy.

The hre department has had two long runs since Saturday night and the fires in both cases did damage amounting to more than $5,000. Sat- urday evening about 5:30 o'clock fire was discovered In the tenement house owned by Mrs Annie Lord at 1921 West Main street, while last evening couple of box cars near the new freight depot made quite a blaze.
 The fire in the Lord house was q real test for the auto truck and the machine made very good showing. The Leavenworth street boys were at the fire, had stream on the roof and had started to play on the blaze with a small hose on the inside before any other of the companies put a stream on. If the Leavenworth street house were equipped with a chemical auto truck the damage to the Lord house would have been 50 per cent less than 1t was, for the chemical could have done yeoman service ,on the in- side of the building. There seems to be little doubt but what the safety board and the finance commissioners will soon see the advisability of pur- chasing chemical auto to work in connection with the hose wagon.
 The fire was in the tenement on the third floor occupied by Walter Large and family. It started in closet and is thought to have been caused by electric wires. The Brook lyn firemen and the Scovill street en- zine also attended the blaze. William c. Itell who won the au- tomobile at the Elks fair, resides on the second floor and Mrs Lord, the owner, on the first. The loss to Mrs Lord will be about $1,000 while the damage to the furniture of the oth- CT families will figure about $500 all of which is covered by insurance. The house is situated on the hill above Colley street and the fire would have had big start if it were not for the quickness with which the auto truck got there.
 | The fire last evening destroyed a hoisting derrick, couple of fiat cars and two freight cars. The derrick and hoisting engine were on what is known as track 65 and the boiler is thought to have ignited the cars. It spread to the freight cars on an ad- joining track and would have ignited whole train of freight cars had they not been pulled to another track in the nick of time. The fire had been 1 burning for some time before any. one paid much attention to 1t. Fire Chief Snagg noticed the illumination from his home on State street and endeavored to phone the freight of flee yard but could get no answer. Later he received telephone call stating that the cars were burning near the trolley barns.
 He sent the Leavenworth truck down and then ordered No 2's. But when they reached the barn they saw the fire was away down in the freight yard.
 I So they came back, went down Judd street and hurried to the blaze. The Scovill street company had to go to the gas plant for hydrant and laid $50 feet of hose before they could get stream on the blaze. The boiler near the derrick and cars was so hot and was in such a condition that it was dangerous to go near it, so the Leavenworth street firemen did not try to do anything with the chemicals.
 The fire greatly illumined the sky and attracted large crowd of peo- pie. The wood work of the four cars was destroyed but the trucks were not damaged. The freight cars had some merchandise in them but it is thought that the damage will not exceed $3,000.