The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-04
TWO DYING FROM SPIRIT EXPLOSION Camille Confortti and His Son Frank Seriously Injured from Burns When Alcohol and
 Bay Rum Blow Up, IN NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL Younger Man Rushed There in Chief Fanchcr's Auto--Firc Docs
 $500 Dnmage-Cause
 Unknown.
IN NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL

Owing 10 an explosion Of alcohol and bay rum, Camille and Frank Comfort ti Italian, are in dangerous condition from burns in the New Haven hospital and neither Is expected to live. The injuries were received at fire at the barber supply store kept by them at l24-l26 Columbus avenue, block from the Hotel Garde. There was a lively fire at the store that gave the fremen a tough fight before 1t was subdued.
 The two men are father and son. Camille Confortti keeping the store and his son, 1T years of age. helping him. confortti, ST. is A years old. The son was taken to the New Haven hospital in Fire Chief Fancher's auto mobile
 The fire broke out in the store kept by the men Both were working there shortly before 615 when the explosion came They are the only ones who know how 1t originated, and both were in too serious condition to be able to tell of 1t. Chief Fancher thought that t might have originated from spon- taneous combustion
 II spread quickly and inside of a mo- ment the flaming oil and bay rum was running over the street. II was dscov- cred and an alarm sent in from box 526 at 6;16 The engines arrived to find the entire ground floor of the building filled with flames and the street run ming over with rivers of It. Their quick work kept the fire from extending to the upper floors In which several Ital- ian families and the one of the two In- tured men live. There was no damage done to the building outside of the store. It is a three story, frame and brick house. the cellar and ground floor being used by the Conforttis and the upper two as dwelling places It was on the top floor that the two men lived.
 Chief Fancher had just come from another fire in Mansfield street and was washing his hands in the basin at fire headquarters when the alarm for the Columbus avenue fire rang In He sped there in his automobile and found Frank Confortti on the street with his clothing half burned off The burns on his body had not yet taken the serious effects that they did later and he was standing up. He was in bad enough shape to show that he needed immediate attention, so Chief Fancher put him into his automobile and hur- rIed him to the hospital, not knowing at the time that there was another man hurt or he would have taken him too. The machine went along at q rapid rate and was back at the scene of the fire before the police ambulance had arrived, although the latter vehicle had been dashed to the accident with all the speed that could be commanded The younger man had either jumped or been blown out of the window in front of the store. The explosion was quite loud and was heard throughout the neighborhood, quickly drawing q large crowd Many heard it in the Hotel Garde and went to the fire.
 The damage done by the fire was fin the neighborhood of $500.
 At the hospital just before press time the men were both in selious condition with little improvement and 1t was said that they would no, live many hours. Both are burned or all parts of the body and suffering painfully,