Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-05-14


Private John A. Stuetz, of Engi
His back is reported broken, and he
The property loss at the fire
100000. The firemen had unusual t.
of water pressure.
Following is list of the casual
DEAD.
WILLIAM FLOOD, 1853 Cabinet
street, lieutenant Engine Com
pany No. 6; burned about face,
neck and arms; internal injuries;
compound fracture left leg; frac-
ture three ribs on right side;
lacerations of face. Lest con-
scousness soon after reaching
City Hospital; died $3.50 a. m.
INJURED.
MATTHEW p. A. McDER-
.MITT, 141 South Eighth street,
deputy chief; probable internal
injuries; fracture right leg just
above ankle; probable fracture
two ribs on right. side; fracture
nose; torn scalp; abrasions face;
burned hands. Condition serious.
EDWIN A. VOGEL, 797 Hunter
don street, fireman Engine Com
pany No. 6; fracture both thighs;
compound fracture right leg;
possible internal INJURIES lacera-
tions face. Condition serious.
FREDERICK, q. KASTNER, 10
Blum street, fireman Engine Com
pany No. s; burned about .head,
hands and left side; decorations
chin. Condition considered not
serious
JOHN V. BYRNE, 465 Central
avenue, driver for Deputy Chief
McDermitt; probable fracture
three ribs; burned about left
foot; decorations tongue. Condl-
tion considered not serious.
JOHN A. STUETz, Ala South
Fifteenth street, fireman Engine
Company No. 6; fracture spinal
column between shoulders; frac-
ture colIarbone, left side; two
deep scalp wounds; cuts on left
leg, right arm, over right eye
and on right ankle; contusions
all over body: paralyzed and un-
conscious. Condition serious, but
believed to have chance for life.
McDermitt, Byrne, Vogel and
Kastner are in the City Hospital.
Stuetz is in st. Barnabas's Hospital.
Battalion Chief Dennis Guidera was
badly cut in the hand, was treated al
the fire and resumed work. William
J. Sauerwein, fireman of No. 6 En-
CINE Company, was cut and bruised
treated for his injuries and returned
to duty.
The Work of Rescue.
The injured men were fighting the
blaze from the rear of the main build
ing when an explosion sent the wall
crashing down on them. Immedi-
ately a number of the fire lighters
who had, escaped the crash started
TO work with their bare hands to dig
the men from under the red hot
bricks. Calls were sent to the hos
pitals. The ambulance from the
sixth precinct was the first upon
the scene, and two of the more Sc
riously injured were placed in this
and rushed to the hospital. When
Lieutenant Flood was brought out
from the ruins it was believed that
he would not live to reach the hos
pital.
Rev. James C. Howard and Rev.
Michael P Corcoran, fire chaplains,
on the second alarm and
did not leave until after O'Clock.
FoITowing the fall of the rear wall,
II was feared that one of the side
walls would collapse and the firemen
were warned by Chief Paul ]. Moore
. eainst going too close to the build
ing The police were forced to drive
hacl, the large crowd that had been
. attracted by the blaze, and which
was gradually closing in toward the
danger point.
CAPTAIN Samuel Brown, of the
sixth police precinct, had all of the
reserves on duty and was in personal
charge of the policing of the lines.
The Stengel plant employed about
two hundred persons, and was work.
Inc nm full time. Harry Stengel, who
was on the scene early, stated that
he had left the building about 6
o'clock and everything appeared all
right then. He said that $4,000 or
der for leather for shoes for the Ital-
ian army had just been completed
and was ready for shipment, as was
q $4,000 order for auto feathers,
which was going to several concerns.
He placed the loss at $3OO,OO0, partly
covered by insurance.
The fire was first discovered by
The night watchman, Peter Brasko.
He stated that he was in the engine
room cleaning the fires when he
zmelled smoke. Going into the main
building. which adjoins the boiler
room, he traced the smoke to the
centre of the second floor. AS he
reached the top of the stairs he saw
! tongue Of flame coming from the
5vnamo used in the. drying room
He pulled the A. d. t. alarm and
then ran into the street and turned
In an alarm from box 246, at FIRE.
and Weston avenues. He
then ran back into the engine room.