The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-26

Crashing into the same tree, at the
very spot where Daniel Holden lost
his life on the auto-chemica1 four
years ago. Fire Chief Edward Moon
ey's car slowed in the treacherous
mud at Putnam street and Hunting
ton road this morning and side
swiped a tree, hurting the chief and
wrecking the car. The chief was an
swering still alarm to fire which
rut the Bridgeport Garbage Reduc-
ton plant out of business at o'clock
this morning.
The chiefs car hit the tree a
glancing blow on the side on which
against the tree with considerable
force, painfully bruising his side and
cutting his leg a little. Despite these
injuries the chief coolly walked with
out assistance to his home at IT'S Will
liam street, half a mile away. There
moned, who found that the chief had
sustained no bad injuries, although he
is painfully bruised and will be lame
for several days.
Chauffeur Percy Searles stuck 10
his post when the accident occurred
and was bumped, against the steering
wheel but not hurt. The car was
temporarily wrecked but will be re-
paired within a day or two.
In the meantime, the still alarm
which had called the chief and the
auto-che emical to the garbage plant
had been changed to a bell alarm
from Box All at North avenue and
East Main street. Before the fire
could be extinguished it had burned
out the two conveyers at the garbage
plant, and had followed them up and
partially gutted the top floor. AL
though none of the garbage reduc-
tion machinery except the conveyer
of business, and will be so for a con-
siderable time.
Owner Fisher was unable to esti-
mate his damage when asked this
morning. He made immediate ar
rangements for the burial of the gar
bage on the town farm, pending the
repairing of his plant, which may be
q matter of several weeks, as it is
impossible to work without the con-
veyers, which have been totally de-
The damage probab bly, is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The fire broke out about 4:3O
o'clock and was discovered by Night
Watchman Julius Wolffer, who first
telephoned for the fire apparatus and
then rang in an alarm from Box All.
Fire Chief Mooney and Chauffeur
Searles jumped into the chiefs car
ana maze IOT the scene OIL the nre.
1t was drizzling, the roads were COW
cred with slippery mud and the fog
made it dark, factors which tended
to make Chauffeur Searles keep the
car we'll in hand. They crossed the
Berkshire bridge and were about 70
make the turn at Putnam street when
the car began to skid, turning almost
around and fetching up
with a sideways glancing blow against
a tree.
Fhe chief started to jump, but didn't,
and was bumped against the tree with
force. The shock bent
the front axle and the frame of the
but did not do any other
damage, not even breaking the glass
in the lamps.
Although very lame and painfully
bruised, the chief refused to let Chauf-
feur Searles get him any assistance
and insisted on walking unaided to his
home in William street. He would
not have called a doctor, but Mrs.
Mooney insisted on it, and the chief
was ordered to bed, much against his
He would have gone on
tn +He fire if he had had any means
Of getting there.
This accident occurred at exactly
the spot where the Bridgeport auto