The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-15
Minnie Navarro Smashed i'm
Window, Rescued Baby
and Called Help
BARN BURNED ON
WILLIAMS STREET
contents Also Lost - Property Owned
py Mrs. N. w. Dunklee-Hard Work
by Department with Onlv Chemicals
Origin Unknown

A barn on Williams street near West
ern avenue, owned by Mrs. \. NJ. Dunk
lee, was burned to the ground last
night about midnight with its contents
In the barn was some new hay. a sleigh
a moving machine and some small tools
Ihe barn was not insured. Hard work by
the fire department with only chemicals
to fight the fire saved the house. which
was separated from the barn bv only 4
few feet. The shed at the rear of the
house caught fire several times bnt a
garden hose from the greenhouse of Carl
;. Hopkins and the chemical line manned
by the firemen saved it. The origin of
the fire is not known.
Early discovery and a prompt telephone
alarm by Miss Minnie Nazzaro of the Bos-
ton Fruit store, who was enioying an
automobile ride with her younger sister
and her aunt, Mrs. Peter Biagotti, un-
doubtedly gave the fremen an opportunity
to save the other buildings from destruc-
ton.
The party Were returning a little after
IL clock from a ride out beyond West
Brattleboro and turned into Williams
street Flames leaping from the window
Of the barn attracted their attention.
Miss Nazzaro leaped from the machine and
ran to the front door, but her efforts to
arouse the inmates of the house were un-
availing.
Grabbing up a stick in the yard she ran
TO the back piazza and smashed in kitch-
en- window and climbed in, crying that the
building was on fire. She knew Mrs. Dunk
l-rar hot
house, which was beginning to fill with
smoke, was baby.
She finally got responses from the wo-
men who We're sleeping there and found
the baby asleep in bed. Taking ND the
child and blanket she carried her out
doors and laid her on the blanket on the
grass. Seeing that the others in the
house were awake, she ran to the green
house OF Mr.. Hopkins and called the fire
department on the telephone. Meanwhile
the chauffeur drove down Williams street
| to box AZ and sounded the alarm
The autotruck was near the Princess
theatre on its way to answer the telephone
alarm when the box alarm began to dis
turb the slumbers of the call fremen.
Those who lived in the vicinity of the fire
were loud this morning in their praise of
the speed with which the machine reached
| the scene of the fire.
| No hydrants being available the best the
firemen could do was to use to the best
advantage their chemical line from the so
,gallon tank. A garden hose from the Hop
kins place also helped The steamer soon
Preached the scene, but it was impossible to
get the heavy machine near enough to
| the brook to get water.
| The chemical tank was soon emptied and
was Immediately reflled and recharged
with the extra charge of chemical always
carried. An automobile was rushed back
to the fire station and a third charge of
chemical was brought in time to be used
as soon as the second charge in the tank
had been consumed. With this line. the
| operators of which were sheltered from the
intense heat of the burning barn by boards
and boxes held in place by others, the
shed and house, which are joined together,
were saved. 1t was an hour and a half
after the alarm was sounded before the
all-out signal was heard
Much of the furniture in the house was
removed during the early stages of the
| fire. The house and contents were in
sured, but the insurance on the barn had
been allowed to lapse this spring. The loss
may reach $500.