Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-08-02
MAN BLEEDING
TO DEATH NEAR
SCENE OF FIRE
Andrew Rusa Cuts Artery in
Attempt to Rescue Child in
Burning Building.
is FOUND By POLICEMAN
HELPLESS ON STREET

While trying to save a child whose
mother, thinking her baby was in the
burning house, cried Historically,
Andrew Rusa, of 500 Charles street,
rammed his right hand through
window pane and severed an artery,
which caused him to lose an almost
fatal supply of blood during the fire
about $40 o'clock last night at 588
Charles street, when the lower floor
of q two-story frame tenement house
was partially gutted. The fire, it is
believed, was caused by the explo-
sion of matches In a closet, which
ignited a can of kerosene. How the
matches were set afire is not known,
but it is thought that it may have
been the work of rats.
Rusa arrived at the scene of the
fire soon after the alarm had been
turned in from box Sc at Charles
street and Hall avenue. A mother
who lived on the second floor of the
building, not knowing her child had
been saved, became hysterical and
plead for some one to go back into
the burning house and save her baby.
Rusa rushed into the building, brav-
ing the flames which were leaping
around on the first floor, and made
his way to the second.
At the foot of the stairs, where the
steps are narrow, there is a window
Rusa, in his hurry in going up the
steps, accidentally rammed his right
hand through one Of the glass plates.
He pulled back his arm and made
his way to the second floor, not con-
sidering his injury, though an artery
had been severed. Finding the child
had been taken out he started down
the steps. He made his way out OF
the building and to his home few
doors away as quickly as possible,
but the wound began spouting blood
so furiously that he ran down to Hall
avenue ON his way to a drug store,
Patrolman Murray found him in Hall
avenue In a weak condition, almost
on the verge Of fainting, and the
artery bleeding profusely. City
Electrician FRANKIE, with the water
departments auto truck had come
to the fire and was nearby and In this
the injured man was taken to the
office of DR.. j. V. Smith as quickly as
possible. The doctor made five
stitches in the arm of the man. He
was later taken home in the auto
truck.
Michael Matlock, of 591 Charles
street, was the man who rescued the
child whom Rusa was under the i'm
preston was still In the burning
building. He, with Constable K. A
Kish, were sitting at the former
home when they saw the smoke from
the burning house. Kish ran to the
fire alarm box and gave the signal
while Matlock went to the house and
rescued the child.
The house was owned by AleXand
er Androwic, of 271 Elm street, anC
the lower floor was occupied by
Wladislaw Wayciski, who lost large
part of his furniture, which wal
damaged probably $500. The house
was damaged about $500. Insurance
was carried on both. Mcclellan En-
CINE, Lincoln Engine and Liberty
Hook and Ladder companies were OF
the lob. This was the first fire this
year which caused an alarm that the
| Protection Hook and Ladder Com
pany we're not supposed to answer.
Chief William P, O'Hara was dis
| tressed last night when his little pc
dog, Rover" was probably fatal!
hurt when run over by the Mcclellan
| company's hose wagon, on which wa
! the chief himself going to the fire.