Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-29

AhNHNaAS AAAAAa
 Quantities of Water Used.
 Water in tons was put on the fire from fourteen streams, reaching 1t from the West Main street side and from across the east branch of the Yantic. Hydrants fron1a Water street to Thames square were brought into action and three steamers added their streams of river water to that from, the city hydrants.
 From the hydrant on Thames square two streams were led to the coal yard entrance and there were two more lines of hose from a West Main street hydrant opposite Falls avenue.
 Leading up through Falls avenue to West Main street were the lines from Engine No. 1 and from the Greeneyille engine, which were located on the banks of the river above the railroad bridge. The Greeneville engine pump ed one stream and the city steamer also sent one line which was siamesed into two in Falls avenue.
 At a hydrant in front of Munyard's | restaurant two lines of hose were at tached. The hydrant connection sprang a leak underground, but the two streams did good service all | through the fire.
 From the hydrant in Washington | square two lines of hose were laid, | | one west othe dock at the side of the ! Elevator building, and the other east | to Water street and down between | the Schwartz building and the l.. W. | l Carroll & Son building to the coal | holster in the rear where the stream | was used to douse out the fires that | 1 started in the rear of the Elevator | building and in the fram buildings along the water front, | ARAfbAr afraar,a f,ot dT7 aaa7 1 teetive work on this side of the river led from q hydrant in Water street 1 down between the Barstow building
 and the Gallup company building. The l hFemen in charge devoted much of ] their work to keeping a gasoline tank l shed wet down and watching the other
 frame buildings along the dock front
 At l.45 the fantiO steamer arrived drawn by a city department fire team ! of gray horses, which Driver Patrick Caples had taken part way un Wash ington street to meet the steamer. The Yantic men were located on the wharf
 Tn rear or Armour and Co.'S building and their stream shooting through the hose iB ten minutes after they arrived
 The YaRtiG steamer had a hot location 1 as previously the crowd had been driv-
 en back from heFs b5f tsa intense heat
 Of the blaze across the river.
 WiIlmanto Chief Injured.
 Chief Thomas Foley of the Wiliman- 1 tic lire department and ex-Chief w. U.
 Webster were here for the night and
 started in to help the local men. They
 were at work on the coal pocket at the
 rear of the Davenport shop when Chief
 Foley fell from girder into the pock- ct, striking timbers as he fell and bad ly brusing his left arm and face. He
 was OJlipIrly ootra1, ,ttt o,,5 +,I-o,,
 from the locality. where Dr. R. w
 hlmbau saw him. He was badly
 shaken up, but 1t was believed no
 bones were broken. He was taken to
 the Auditorium hotel.
 Protected Gasoline Building.
 At the rear of the L. w. Carroll
 building one stream was kept busy
 drenching the small building belonging
 to that company in which is kept gas
 oline and other quickly indammable
 oil.
 New Lumber Burned. , Two large schooners had just dis , charged cargoes in the Chappell yard.
 and this lumber, on the east wharf. was nearly all burned.
 The fire melted the coal pockets down as if they had been tinsel, and it was
 impossible to get past the fierce flames
 to offer any resistance uo their prog ress. All the coal pockets were laid
 Hat, as well as all the brick buildings ! south of where the fire started. Main Building Saved. The main building of the Chappell { company. In which the office is' locat 3 ed, was saved This four story brick 7 building caught at the rear, but was l put out, and the wind being away from it ba1na3 Fv7 s Many of tho tools in the carpenter l shop of Stetson & Young were gotten q out.
 . The department was greatly handf- l cappetd in being unable to fight the
 fire except from the West Main street
 side. It had gotten such start that it
 was impossible to get beyond it ana
 fight it from the rear.
 Pigeon Swan the River. i One of the curious sights noticed by v several along the river bank was 8 n pigeon swimming across the YantiC
 from the Chappell side The bird made f. brave struggle, sculling itself ahead q by Tapping it's drenched wings dowr 2 upon the water and got safely across i the river, only to sink, as it could moi s be reached by those who wanted tC s rescue 1t.
 - Horses Taken Out. t Horses from the stables along the n east bank of the Yantic were removed 2 to safety soon after the fire st rted 0 Henry Lewis helping in this W ork. s Fire on Restaurant Roof. At the Munyard restaurant on Cen 4 tral wharf, Policeman Charles ED. < berts engineered a successful attemp Y to put out a fire that had started oI "a the shingle roof of the kitchen. Witt I, a ladder the roof was reached an, d pails of water. sent up after a shor : length of hose had been attached to f faucet inside the building. Y TantaIizina Jet of Fire. 5 Away up on sloping portion of tn ~ roof of the Elevator building was II point where a little jet of flame flick '+ cred more than once. By good hand
 ling of the stream from the coal hoist
 CT this could just be reached and wa r. put out several times.
 d Brick Wall Proved It's Value. @ What proved the salvation of in "a buildings to the north was the bric ,d wall of the building occupied by Stet - son x Young. This furnished a van
 tage point behind which the flame o could not pass and when the wind too ,t a shift to the south. it was seen tha 10 the fire would probably not sprea ,s across West Main street. '0 Another brick wall that resisted tn
 fire a long time was that in tn
 building occupied by the Peck Me al Williams company for their cemen Is bricks and masons supplies. The of carried a stock of from S5.O00 to Ss O0t ct partl yinsured.
 gu gu Burned Out Sixty Years Aao, By one man who watched the fire, IS was stated that 1t was just sixt 10 years ago next September since tn -'s ChaPPeil hFm was burned out in on in q the nest destructive fires known l re | Norwich uR to that time. sWeepin he Central wharf and burning the Wes ot Side bridge So that temporary bridg