The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-13
NEW HAVEN JAIL IN FLAMES SIX FIREMEN REPORTED DEAD
 PRISONERS REMOVED SAFELY
Fire Caused By Crossed Wire Completely Destroys
 All the Workshops
Entire Elm City Depart ment Fighting Blaze Still
 Raging This Afternoon
from United Press.) )

New Haven, April 13.-Fire, caused it is thought by the crossing of elec- 1 tric wires, broke out in the chair workshop of the New Haven County Jail, shortly after 9:30 o'clock this morning, and being famed by a stiff 1 breeze, spread to all the other work shops of the Jail and the con1nissary l department, completely destroying them and finally reached the jail 1 proper, where 325 prisoners were con- fined.
 At 1:SO o'clock Fire Chief F'ancher took toll of the fremen who had been fighting the flames and announc- ed that six men are missing and that he believes all have been killed. Chief Fancher said those missing are Cap tain Chapman, Lieutenant Doherty Grath and Morte1.
 T have had nobody tell me these 1 men are dead" said Chief F'ancher ftbut. I am convinced of the fact, oth- erwise they would certainly be at their posts fighting the flames Chief Fancher has ordered a thor ough search of the ruins nnediately and this work has now begun. Chief Fancher believes all were crushed to death when the roof of one of the cells on the third floor in the rear of the jail eaved in about 12:20 o'clock.
 All the workshops are a total loss. The entire fire department of the city
 
 smother the flames, working under the personal direction of Chief Fancher.
 Bremen Vaughn, Hussey and O'Neil are in local hospitals with serious but not necessarily fatal injuries. Vaughn is suffering from terrible burns about the face and it is feared he will be permanently blind. Hussey and O'Nei1 were burned about the hands, arms and body
 Up till 11:3o o'clock Lieutenant Will liam Doherty and Fireman Cullen and Cla5lor mic nd xr1S "a ed they had been buried in the debris. Shugrue and Cullen turned up after jumping from a second story window on Hudson street side of the jail and immediately joined their comrades in fighting the flames. Shugrue. however. soon collapsed and was carried to a residence for treatment. Lieutenant Doherty, according to later reports, was still missing.
 Soon after the flames had pierced the roofs of the workshops and the commissary building was on fire the authorities saw the necessity of re- moving the prisoners to places of police reserves and several companies of the second regiment, Connecticut National Guard, were summoned to the scene. Buckling on their firearms, the soldiers arrived on the scene at Il o'clock under command of Captain Hall and Captain Grubb, who ordered and with bayonets fixed, guard the prisoners while they were transferred. Within a few minutes after the arri- val of the militia, the streets leading express vans, hacks and even auto mobiles which were pressed into ser vice in the transfer of the prisoners. By noon 290 men prisoners were safe in the city lookup while the 25 women inmates were housed in the Second Regiment Arnory, on Meadow street. made famous as the place where the annual Yale Junior Prom has always been held.
 The fire was by all odds the most spectacular New Haven has witnessed worn out with fighting an unusual number of blazes during the night, was resting and was not anxious for any further fire fighting. Five min utes after the first alarm had sound ed, a second and third had been rung in and the entire fire force of the city was on the way to the burning jail. The great streams of water had no more effect on the burning workshops and commissary building than the stream from a squirt gun, so f1ercely were the tirnbers burning.
 At 12:30 o'clock it was announced at both the city lookup and the arm ory that none of the prisoners had es- capped or even tried to escape. Ac- cording to all accounts the transfer was remarkably orderly, the prisoners seeming to enjoy their temporary free- dom after they realized how narrow 1y they had escaped from burning trap The women especially enjoyed the e1perlence, one, WhO was 1ncar- cerated for burglary, marking it was the first joy ride she had had tesince she left home."
 While details have yet to be veri- narrow escapes from death by fire and falling debris among the firemen Vaughn, one of those ia the hospital was trapped on the second floor of the jail in heavily barred cell. It was fully half an hour before his comrades succeeded in chopping through the roof and releasing him, He received his burns while escaping through a. corridor with the flames licking him all the way to the open air.