Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23
100 HORSES BURN
IN STABLE FIRE;
Loss IS $4,000
Midnight Blaze Destroys Barns
of [. ]. Buckley Company,
City Scavengers.
MANY ANIMALS SHOT TO
END THEIR SUFFERING
Neighborhood Awakened By
Beasts Cries of Pain-Fire's
Origin Unknown.

In a spectacular fire at which It was
said today the loss would be $4,000
and which destroyed the stables ana
barns of L. J. Buckley & Co. the city
scayengers at 1872 Frelinghuysen ave
nue.. at midnight last night. about 100
horses were either burned to death or
SO badly injured that they had to be
shot. One man. Henry Wilson. an en-
ployee, was burned about the head
and had to be treated at the City Hos
pital
At the time the fire started there
were $50 horses in the stables. and
through the efforts of the neighbors.
firemen and police many of them were
saved.
Although the fire was under control
in an hour the WORK of Saving the
crazed horses was continued for sew
eral hours. and it was only when the
walls and the roof of the stables began
to fail apart that the men were forced
to stop the work Of rescue.
Employee Discovers Fire.
The fire was discovered by Corneles
Shruby a negro employed at the
stables. VINO lives with his wife, and
mother-in-law on the second floor Of
the building. He was returning home
shortly after midnight and, noticing
the flames issuing from the rear Of
the building, hurried to his wife and
mother-in-law and informed then,
of the blaze. They were forced to leave
their room in their nightc1othes and
We're taken care Of at Roach's Hotel.
Shruby then turned in an alarm from
the private box in the barn, and Peter
Rowhan, the night watchman. who
had Just completed his rounds. did the
same from a street box.
Begin Rescue work.
Rowhan ha.i reported at 1910 that
everything was In proper shape. ana
1t was two minutes later that he
turned in the alarm The two
men. assisted by Richard Roach. a
hotelkeeper. began the work of rescu-
ing the horses until the flremen arrived
| Roach's hair was slightly singed and
| his hands burned. Driver Sutphen. OF
the Salvage Corps. led out about eigh-
teen horses and Patrolmen Collins.
Burns, Voss ana Roundsman Tighe. of
the First Precinct, saved many of the
animals on which the halters and tails
were burning.
Robert Harrison, William ]. Purcell
and John Killan also were of great
help.
Engine Company No 10 was the first
on the scene. quickly followed up by
other forces. but the fifteen carloads
| of hay put into the barn recently
burned so freely and rapidly that lit
tie headway could be made.
Credit Due Firemen.
Great credit is due to the hremen
for saving the building of the Young
Oil Company. which is a few feet away
from the barn. Battalion Chief Nc
Dermott ordered the men to place two
lines of hose at either end of the build
ing and play four streams of water.
thereby forming a blanket. The horses
from the Young Oil Company stables
were quietly led out.
ScavenEcr Service Crippled.
A sad sight was that of the blinded
and burned horses walking around the
street in agony. Ten of them were be-
+ yond medical aid and had to be shot
Although none of the wagons belong
ing to the company was burned. all
of the harness was destroyed.
However. General Superintendent Of
Works Shipman today offered the use
of the city wagons and harness to the
company, and many constructors have
volunteered to help the company with
the necessary equipment, so that the
work of collecting the garbage may go
on without endangering the health of
the people through a delay.
/ - 49,
stated that horses are being bought and
hired as fast as they can be gotten.
4 The origin Of the fire is unknown.