The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-13
Bravery of Police Mininnizes Deaths In Early Morn .
 ing Blaze TWO DRAGGED OUT OF SMOKE, UNCONSCIOUS. Tenants Insist On Bursting Into Blazing Building to
 Save Effects VICTIMS GO FROM
 SLEEP TO DEATH Medical Examiner Garliek Recommends Investigation
 to Coroner Phelan
Medical Examiner Garliek

Appalling SQuatOr ana Ifls55at- fully unsanitary cQndltlons have been disclosed in the in vestigation begun by police and firemen into the fire of early this morning; in the six flat tenement house st 211-213 Howard avenue. where three men were suffocated and burn ed to death, and two more al- most Oerished in the smoke
 More than 50 other men, women and children who were in the house owe their lives to the timely discovery of the Ire by Policeman Edward S-. Wheeler and to his coolness and bravery in arouslng them from sAuInber and driving them into the street.
 P0lidenlan joseph T Cough- lin who ran to the house after the alarm o9 fire had been turned in by Policeman Wheel CT, also rendered Yeoman ser vice in arOusing sleeping i'm mates of the building who oth- erWise would have been over come by smoke
 The dead are
 John Kaparec, aged %, mar ried, wife living in Greece
 James Stasace, aged 20, mar ried, wife living in Greece.
 George Dacules, aged 8, un- married
 Thomas Barog, aged 20, and George Hecules, aged 8, were overcome by smoke and were restored to consciousness by puImotof treatment All are Greeks
 The rnen an lived on the lower floor on the north side of the building Da- crales. one of the dead men, is pea nut vender and 1t is believed the fire which 6 fire was left burning in the cellar when the men retired, and which communicated it's blaze to bur lap and rubbish with which the cellar was deeply filtered
 The three dead men were asleep fin a little room directly over the eel lar where the fire started A double bed. a sEaake-down and a trunk w1nicf were in the rooms left little space for the occupants to move about
 Kaparece and StAsace were employ ed at fhe factory of the American Tube and Stamping Go
 The hre ate it's way into the room where the men were asleep, burning a hole large enough for a mans body through the marrow sp4ce befweeT the bed and shake-down- Up througI the house, an old wooden structur' owned by the A F. w. Wallace es tate, the flames went. between tn plaster partitions, Burning into the at tic and then eating a hole in the roof Fires in old buildings of this char acter are always stubborn things t subdue-
 The blaze was nushrooned out il the cellar under the floor and founc it's way up between the plaster par in the reare tenement The freme1 had to cut through the walls of tn outside buildings, and inside as well to get water to the blaze Befor, the fire came through the floor of tn room in which the men were sleeping it was burning behind the plaster o the four sides of the room, and int tIze floor above.
 FROM SLEEP TO DEATH
 From their natural s1umber the me passed into unconsciousness by yi1rhal 1nr the smoke poured into the room and they did not feel the frightfu burns that they received when tn flames burst through the floor clos to their beds Stasace who was evi
 
 the place where the fire burst through was most badly burned. His face wa horribly b1istered and the flesh literal 1y cooked from his arms-@g Kaparece who slept on the side of the doubl bed where the fire came. was a1s badly burned on the face and arms Dacu1es. lying on the other~side<of tn bed, suffered only a few slight burns s but his hair asd eyebrows were badl sfnged He died of suffocation.
 WHEE1I1ER SAVES TWO.
 But for the prom ptness of Police man Wheeler, Barog and Hecule also would be numbered among tn dead They with two other men wer asleep in another small room next f the one in which the dead men wer found wheeler burst in the q oor an aroused two of the four men. Fl then 7ra<xed ont the other two WI1ol