The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-14
Both Hurled Into Roadway, Chief Suffering from Shock
 Is Ordered to Bed Driver Holden Refuses to Quit Duty Until Disman- tied Gar Is Towed Away By Locomobile Go. $ Wreckers Billy Weav- CT Badly Burned In Gaso- line Explosion.

Ch1eT mooney ana CnaI1oS f1O1Oeh, the chiefs chauffeur, were violently thrown from the. chiefs auto in Hou- satonic avenue just north of Congress street, at 11:25 this morning, and the machine was wrecked, when it crashed into the wooden abutment of the Berk- shire division answering an alarm of fire in East Bridgeport.
 The alarm came from Lyford Bros auto repair shop where William Weaver. aged 31. only son of MT. and Mrs. Stephen Weaver of 41 Jane street, had been dangerously. burned in the explosion of a gasoline torch. The on the building. Weaver is in the Bridgeport hospital, suffering from burns Of the face. hand and wrists,
 Weaver is an expert machinist. He was working with gasoline torch, when the implement exploded The receptacle for gasoline blew to pieces and he was enve1oped for mom ment with 8 sheet of flame. Employees of Lyford Bros, taking fright at the ex- plosion and flames, rang in an alarm from the box at Beach street and East Washington avenue.
 Chief Mooney and Driver Holden set out from fire headquarters in Middle street to answer the alarm. Holden drove, his car down Middle street, across Congress street into Housatonic Washington avenue bridge. As he sped across the north crosswalk on Congress street he struck a section where the street is torn up. Whether the steering gear was put out of conn mission or he lost control of the wheel. the car took diagonal course across 100 feet and with a resounding crash tore into one of the heavy tirnbers of the abutment supporting the Berkshire
 Chief Mooney was flung headlong fn- to the street. describing an almost complete somersault in the air as spectators describe it. landing fiat on his back. Holden was thrown vlo- 1ently against the wheel and over the hood into the roadway. just missing the wooden pillars. But without a seconds hesitation. both jumped to their feet. They found the car such a wreck, however. that it was hopeless to try to proceed further.
 Both wheels on the right side of the machine had been torn off. the steer but reduced to kindling, and the mechanism damaged to an uncertain extent. The chemical engine, how ever, made record time to the fire and on their arrival the crew found noth- ing to do in the way of fire fighting, but they at once used to good advant- age their knowledge of first aid.''
 Unstrapping the cans of carron oil always carried on the chemical engine, they gave Weaver liberal ablutions of the soothing remedy, aIleviating his pain until the arrival of Ambulance Surgeon Krause who saw at a glance that he was a hospital case. Weaver was hurried to the Bridgeport hospital where he was resting comfortably late this afternoon. Dr. Krause believes he will not be scared, for the fire was apparently of but an instant's dura- ton.
 Chief Mooney was badly shaken up, but he declared he was unhurt. He went home at noon unassisted, first giving directions for the removal of the wrecked car. But when he reach calling in the family physician. pr. George B. Cowen. pr. Cowell ordered the chief to take to h1s bed for 24 hours. He reluctantly compiled. The doctor said he was unable to find any physical injuries, but said the chief was very apparently suffering from shock, and needed absolute rest.
 Holden, however, refused to quit the scene until the Locomobile Co., s wreck ing crew had replaced one of the broken wheels with another and hitch ing the disnantled upon a truck
 Billy Weaver, as the fire victim is best known, has host of friends in East Bridgeport, who were shocked at the news of his calamity. His father is well known Civil War veteran.
 Following the mishap of the chiefs machine, hundreds of people were att tracted to the scene. The appearance hospital gave rise to reports that the chief and Holden had been badly ir- jured, and soon the thOroughfare was blocked with teams. automobiles and pedestrians on the way home for the noon hour. The crowd became so patched from headquarters to keep traffic under way