Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-09

Assistant Engineer JDhn J. 0 4teufhe, whe directed the werk of the various companies through their respective feFemen, ably assisted by Third As sistant Engineer Frederick Hernberger and Former Chief Charles B. Leonard and Former Chief Wade U. Webster Hard Fire to Fight
 The fire was SC het that the flremen at the nezEles were oblised to have wet blankets about their hands and faces in order to get anywhere near the burning structure, A nest of wooden Buildings around the burning shop at either side and in the rear on Meadow street made the situation all the more critical. and the firemen were called upon to put out six or eight small fires that started from l flying sparks. The wind was blowing favorably from the south and a part of the time from the southwest or otherwise the six or seven wooden houses on Meadow street in the rear the burning shop would of necessity have been destroyed. As 1t was, the old paint shop, formerly occupied by the Argus Battery company, at the west of the main shop, caught afire in one or two places and was put out and the small two-story wooden house east of the carriage shop next to A. G.. Turner's silk mill caught fire. This house was formerly owned by the John Brown estate but is now the property of Frank V. Collins and occupied by | him and his family. The furniture was quickly removed and dumped in heap across the street upon the lawn and sidewalk in front of Philip Che ney's house The loss to the house was confined principally to the roof although the damage by water will be | considerable
 | Eight Lines of Hose in Use.
 The fire department had eight sep 1 arate lines of hose playing upon the main fire in the Burnham shop, which was filled with highly infiammable material and was hard to fight. A number of carriages and wagons in l the shop were badly burned. George | s. Elliott had two new wagons and | Murphy Bros. had hack, as did Mer- Till H. Jones.
 l Sparks flew as far north as Summit street, and many of the lawns on Wal nut street were strewn with ashes, as was the playground and lawn sur rounding the First Congregational church. Upon this playground and lawn hundreds of people congregated ! hs Great credit is due every man in the department for the way the fire was ] handled so successfully.
 Damage from Sparks.
 Flying sparks started fires on the roofs of both the Cheney houses on Valley street across the street from the Main fire, on the roof of Mrs. Col ! lins' house on Walnut street north of
 
 1 the roof of George L. Herrick's house at sS Walnut street, in the rear oi ! the Collins residence; on the roof of 1 Fred c. Tflden's wood shed at the corner of Walnut and Spring streets and on the roof of the house occupied | by Supt. NJ. Bigelow and family on Spring street between Walnut and 1 High streets, fully a quarter of a mile 1 away from the main fire, and in the shed at the rear of Mrs. Paul Du- breuA's house at 5s Meadow street All these incidental fires were quickly put out. Sparks also flew into the rear of a covered fish or grocer 6 wagon that stood on Walnut street and started a little blaze that was quickly put out.
 Help from Mill Aided.
 Shortly after the double alarm had sounded four blasts of the whistle al Turner's silk mill notified the opera. tives that there was a fire near al hand they quickly poured out of tho building. The recall was sent in a POS. forty minutes after the alarn sounded, and at 210.two blasts on tho whistle called the help back to work a the Turner mill
 John Hedin Injured.
 While the fire was at it's height, Johl Hedin, employed by MT. Burnham a! a blacksmith, while working with tn, fireman, and as he had just come ava, from the building after opening up door to allow line of hose to be uset to better advantage. was hit on tn head by burning timber falling iron the roof. The large piece of timbe felled Hedin to the ground in a semi conscious condition A couple O physicians advised him that he ha, a bad wound and that he had bette have it attended to. He was taken t the office of Dr. Owen O'Nein, Wher the four-inch gash was dressed.
 pr. w. K. fFaatz Badly Hurt.
 Dr. William K. Faatz, a member O Hilltop hose company. No. 3, sustaine the most serious and painful injury il connection with the fire so far report ed. When the second alarm sounde the doctor left his office in the Murra building and hustled up the hill t join his company and caught the true on Prospect street between North an , Walnut streets In attempting t make the truck his foot slipped an he fell. the wheels of the hose wago passing over his left instep, fracturin , the bones. At first he could not brin himself to believe that his foot wa badly injured, but when he was foun by J. B. Baldwin in an alleyway try ing to hobble along. an investigatio
 disclosed that his foot was quite SC riously injured. Mir. Baldwin assiste
 Dr. Faatz to c. B. Leonards automo
 bile, and was taken to Dr. OrNeill
 office where the fracture was reduced Fireman Louis Roberts then accom-
 panied Dr. Faatz to his homo in
 taxicab.
 Frank D. Bish's Accident.
 Frank D. Blish also figured in
 slight mixup in connection with tn
 fire. He had driven his delivery wag
 on into Walnut street and was stand ing near line of hose and when tn
 firemen quickly shifted it MT. Blish
 horses became frightened and ra \ against the hydrant and threw Nj 7 Blish out of the wagon, and the hors
 breaking away, cantered off up Wa
 nut street, but was stopped withol
 any further damage being done.
 Abel R. Burnham, Jr, had pocket