Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-04
FIRE IN aEsIoENcs
 ON BROAD STREET
Starred on Top Flser sf Hsuss Owned
 by Henry Beausoleil.


 At four minutes before one o'clock this morning an alarm. from eox zI at the corner of Broad street and Roswell avenue. called out the fire de- paFtmept for a stubborn blaze in the house at lsI Broad street owned by Henry Beausoleil and occupied by his family and himseif on the first floor and by MT. and Mrs. Milton !. Grant on the second .aoor. The house has a French roof and it was in inc third story formed by this that the Ire was burning when 1t was discov- cred just before 1 o'clock.
 The sound of the cracking of flames aroused from sleep Mrs. John o. John- son, who lives nearly across the street. af lsz Broad street and she aroused her husband and he straightway teIe- phensd In to the Central station. When ne hFst glanced across at his Hefgh- BOTS house MT. Johnson saw the flames shooting herceIy out of one corner of the roof on the street side and when the autochemical reached mere. having come up by way of Me- kiHley avenue and Warren street Fireman Fred Nowatsky was at once sent down to pull the Boswell avenue box. The only other box at all neaI was 3S and that is at the corner of hread street and Mckinley avenue indicating the need of a more cenve- nient box In that neighborhoed
 
 through the front hallway to the top floor and discharged the big tank of forty gallons of extinguisher into the mass of spreading flames, which had made good headway and were stub bornly> eating their way among the roof timbers- When the other ap- Paratus came up, by way of Boswell avenue, ladders were put mp in front of the house to the third story window and line of hose was run in. The water, let in by means of consider able chopping to the burning roof ma terial. got the blaze under speedy con trol and the recall was rung In al LA. It was decidedly hard fire to get at and the department display ed a. high degree of efficiency in get ting there so promptly and in aeune with the good judgment that thes showed after their arrival
 clothes press on the thEd floor whicf was unused by either of the familie. in the house except as a storeroom with a portion of it fitted as a spar. room. There were no electric iigh wires in that part of the house anC Mrs. Grant, whose clothes were in tn, closet could not imagine how it start ed. She and her husband were sleep ing on the floor beneath in the hacl part of the house. but the doors wer, closed and they did not smell tn,
 
 | about the fire above them until MT Johnson came pounding at the doe and shouted Fire" Mir. Johnson ranl | the bell and pounded on the door fo | several minutes before he could aFous Ar. Beauseleil, who was asleep on tn | first floor with several of his chil dren. His wife is in Canada. Mir Beausoleil grabbed a coat and wrap ped up his baby in it and made rush for the street. When he say | that the fire was some distance ava! | from his immediate vicinity he wen back and dressed more calmly. Stil he considered it a narrowing expe rieHee to be awakened in the middl ! of the night with the cry of fire in hi ears. MT. Johnson said that he feare, | that in the dense smoke on the sec oHd floor MT. and Mrs. Grant hai | smpthered to death, but eventually hi l repeated knockings got them up safe | ly. | Aside from considerable damage t l one side of the roof by fire. the prin eipal damage seemed to be done b. | water, although the fremen tried t use as little as possible. It drippe | down from floor to floor and foTme' | puddles in the hallway MF. Beauso l leil had just had his house newl. painted and papered and both familfe | had lot of new furniture FeFtu | nately both carried insurance.