Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-12-28
SAVE SLEEPING MAN
AS FAMILIES FLEE
INTO COLD FROM FIRE
'yan Dunn Buildings in Smith
Street Gutted by Fames---3
Fires Over Week End Cause
$4,000 Damage, is Report.

The Bryan Dunn buildings at 205-
209 Smith street were gutted by
flames; three other buildings were
damaged; three families scantily
clad were driven into the snow laden
-eets, and man was saved from
re suffocation by patrolman, in
three fires that did an estimated
1tf.ssege Of $4,000 over the week
IN A number of firemen this morning
are suffering with colds from expos
ure yesterday morning, when be-
tween and 5 o'clock, covered with
icicles formed by the spray from the
hose, they successfully fought the
flames in the Bryan Dunn buildings
while the mercury shivered around
three degrees above zero. SO intense
was the cold that the limbs and fin
gers of the fire fighters became so
numbed that they only saved them
selves from freezing by now and then
seeking the warmth of neighboring
houses. Women in the vicinity kind
l., furnished them with hot coffee,
which stimulated them to fresh en-
deavors in the frigid air. Fire Chief
Paul M Woitscheck, who with AS
sistant Chiefs Tooker and Anderson
directed the fight against the flames,
was hardly able to go to work this
morning so stiff was his body. He is
suffering with a bad cold.
David Owens, a janitor, was saved
from the flames by Patrolman Rea-
ger, who rescued the man from the
burning half-story of the building in
which is Patrick Lyons saloon. The
man was SO stupe6ed that when
awakened and told ef his danger be-
Z sof e the flames reached the apart
NETS, he only relaxed and went to
sleep agan. He was carried bodily
down the stairs through the smoke
filed building by the officer.
The total damage, estimated by
the fire chiefs is $4,000. Three
apartments were gutted, a new and
second hand clothing store and
dressmaking shop swept by flames,
the second story of the saloon build
ing was devastated and the top half
story burned. John p. Lloyd, of
Matawan, owns from 205 to 209
Smith street, inclusive. A building
at 201203 Smith street., owned by
Jens P. Westergaard and M. |. Din
esen, was also damaged.
A. F. MunoZ, of the Lincoln En-
gine Company, had narrow escape
while on a ladder at the blaze. An
axe few off the handle while another
fireman was doing some cutting
away. The sharp implement struck
the fireman's cap glancing blow
and fell harmlessly to the pavement.
The flames originated in the odds
and ends store of Clarence A. Tuttle
at 205 Smith street. Mr.. Tuttle left
his place at 10:30 o'clock, and says
he first knew of the fire when awak
ened by the alarm. A stove pipe
connecting with a 1ue in a side wall
set the blaze that devastated the
store and ate its way through the
walls ino the apartments of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Grove, where they and
their two sons, Roy and William,
we're sleeping. The first burst
through the kitchen and the sleepers
knew nothing of it until awakened
by Patrolman Hartmann kicking on
the door When awakened they
smelled the smoke and discovered
the kitchen blazing, and escaped
from the building in hurry. They
raped on the wall separating their
apsrtments from those of Miss Ma
ME Bunn.- whom they aroused. The
fire gutted the two apartments and
worked its way east and west. From
the Dunn apartments 1t spread to the
second-story of Patrick Lyons sa-
loon building, gutted it and burned
the half-story and roof. Westward
It spread from the Grove apartments |
to those of Mrs Nathaniel Morse, |
who with her two children were !,
sleeping In the next building, owned |
by Westergaard and Dinesen.
Her apartments were gutted, as
was the top half-story. of the two
and one-half story building. Aided |
by firemen and others she was able |
to get out about half of her furniture |
through window and into the sec
ond-story window of the Mandel |
building. which opened into the |
apartments of Mrs. John Bruslins |
Through her apartments the furni- |
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