The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-13

he couldn't awaken just as the fire apparatr1s arrived. The dremen quick 1 ly located the other men and carried them out.
 Policemen Wheeler and Coughlin experienced the utmost difficulty in driving out i've other Greeks who were asleep in a front room of the tenement and in getting out of the house 29 men, women and children or Hungarian nativity who occupied the two floors above The rooms above were choked with smoke and at the top floor the policemen had to crawl on their hands and knees.
 PoIdcE CLUB OUT TENANTS.
 Many half clad inmates of the floors above refused to leave the building without their trunks The officers had to use their clubs. After some had been driven into the street they ran lack again, and the police had to force out occupants even second and third time. The large number of inmates, running in and out, interfered with the work of the fremen and the fire lighters had to use force in some instances to keep the panic stricken Hungarian5 out of theiT way and out of danger
 COUG41LN SAVES BABY.
 officer cough1in was on the rear porch trying to prevent a woman who had come from a floor above from going back into the building when s t,e1-5 sae- made him underztand that there was child onc the upper floor- The off1caf forced her into the yard and the en went after the child. In his struggle with the woman he dropped his night stick
 BRAVERY OF POI1CE-
 Later Policeman Wheeler came on tho back porch and finding his com- rade's night stick he assumed that fhe. latter twas overcome wtth smoke in the building and he started to find him. By vthis time the marrow hall ways of the structure were filled with smoke and after getting up the first flight of stairs wheeler was obliged hands and knees When he reached the top he found Coughlin coming down with the child. Coughlin lost his pocket light which was recover ed this morning by Police Sergeant McGirr and other policemen sent to watch the house.
 As the fire reached the ceiling of the first floor it virtually encased each of tie rooms in the rear of the north side tenement and it also musI1roomed out between the plastering of the cell ings in each room The woodwork was dry and burned like finder, but as the fire. ate under the old plaster ling it threw off dense smoke that filled almost every room as we'll as the narrow haHways in the build ing.
 1 Only one English speaking family lives in the structure, the family of William Nage1- They had the lower tenement on the south side but be- yond the smoke they suffered no dam lage. Several of the Hun garian 
 the fire began, lost wearing apparel in the flames but their loss was slight None of the inmates had insurance on IeTects but the building itself was Insured.
 1 TENANTS FEARE'UILY CROWDED.
 The lower floor where the men were Isuffocated was four room tenement as a sleeping room by six men The room beyond this was. used as a kitchen and the two small rooms in the rear were sleeping apartments for men and two of the others those over T come by smoke were later resuscitated by the pu1motor
 I sQUALoR AND FILTH. The Greeks conducted a ba1helors. T hall in the utmost filth and squalor
 in the lower tenement. Although
 Barog is probably the youngest of the U men WHO 0CCup1Cd the tenement, he I paid the rent collecting a proportion.
 ate share toward the rental each ii month from the other men. There I was no woman in their estabEshme1lt II Dirt and svernin were everywhere. ! I The beds were the cheapest Old
 mattresses were placed on the springs
 and the sleepers wrapped themselves in
 huge rugs brought from sthe old eoun.
 try. There were no other bed clothes
 They slept with their clothes on Evf.
 dently not room had been swepl 1 while the men occupied the place
 Each man cooked for himself on ST
 old, broken, iron range in the kitchen
 This single stove also furnished al
 the heat for the tenement. Of crock
 cry and table utensils they possessed but few pieces and these also were O ] the cheapest A little gasoline stovt
 in one corner of the room was alst
 used for cooking. Before retiring las 1 night one of the inmates of the tene
 ment set a tea kettle full of cocoa tt simmer over the flame of this stove
 This stove burned on until about
 o'clock this morning when Police
 Sergeant McGirr, who took charge O
 the place turned it out
 In one corner of the kitchen wer. 3 two big sacks of peanuts, the stocl , in trade of Dacules and two copper } urrs for keeping peanuts hot were il , one of the little rooms.
 ; MONEY IN TRUNKS OF DEAD. Fl It is believed that the head men has , considerable sums of money in thei trunks which were taken first to tn,