Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-06-11
SAVED FROM HOUSE
SWEPT BY FLAMES
Woman Overcome Fighting
BIaze-Three Fires YeSter-
day Afternoon and Night.
WOMAN is FRUSTRATED
Damage of Three Fires is
,8O0-Sparks Start Blaze
on Roof of House.

A family of five, including three
small children, was saved from a
house that was gutted by flames;
Mrs. Thomas Conquest was over
come by the heat in bravely fighting
a fire in the second story of her
home at LAT State street, and Mrs.
Katherine Dragiers, of 495 Mechanic
street, was prostrated and revived by
fires between $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and midnight, which did
damage of nearly $500.
Felix Zazac, his wife, and three
small children were asleep at their
home at 499 Leon street at 11:3o
o'clock last night when, according to
Mr.. Zezac, they were awakened by
smoke. Mr. Zazac found the kitch-
en-, next to his bedroom, ablaze, and
he and his wife, only partially clad,
rushed from the house with their
young children. Andrew Jabrocky,
of Inslee street, turned in an alarm
from box No. 92 at Amboy avenue
and 1nslee street. When the firemen
arrived the interior OF every apart
ment of the one and one-half story
brick structure was afire. The house
was completely Quilted and the roof
partially consumed. Only the walls
remained intact from the destruction
Of the flames. Zazac carried insur-
ance In the amount Of $4,000, and
the damage was estimated at $1,000.
He was unable to tell how the blaze
had started.
Alarmed at Sparks.
A br1O rs0h
geant McDermott received word
from Mrs. Joseph Dragiers, of 495
Mechanic street, that sparks from
the smoke-consuming chimney of the
Roessler & Hasslacher plant at
Buckingham avenue and Mechanic
street was emitting sparks and
Threatening their home. Patrolman
Hartmann went to the house and
found that Mrs. Katherine Dragiers,
mother-in-law of Mrs. Joseph ORA
giers, had become SO much alarmed
over the fire scare that she had
tainted DIR. j. v. Smith was attend
ing her and she was cnnyalescing.
The patrolman notified the chemical
company. The sparks continued tc
issue from the chimney and shortly
caught the roof OF plant No. and
the company's fire apparatus was
called out. Several large holes were
burned in the roof and the flames
became SO threatening that still"
alarms were sent to the Lincoln En-
gine Company and the Protection
Hook and Ladder Company, but by
the time the f1remen reached the
scene the employees of the works had
the blaze almost out. The actual
damage was slight. The chimney
causing the sparks is fitted with a
device for consuming the smoke
At times it emits sprays of sparks.
Smell Smoke In Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Conquest
were sitting at tea at $50 o'clock
yesterday afternoon when they
smelIed smoke. Mrs. Conquest
traced 1t to the apartments of Sam
uel Stimon, a groceryman on the
second floor. She saw flames COM
ing from a closet and bureau afire.
She and her husband called for help
and In the meantime fought the
flames with buckets of water. Men
returning from work came to their
assistance, and one telephoned the
police, and an alarm was given from
box 27, at Madison avenue and Pat
erson street. Two rooms were gut
ted by flames and the walls OF the
CONQUEST apartments considerably
damaged, as was the furniture, by
water The damage covered by in
surance amounted to about $500
Mrs. Conquest fought the flames
with buckets of water so energetically
that when the firemen arrived she
collapsed, being overcome by being
SO near the blaze. She was carried
to an apartment Of the house not af-
fected by the smoke and water,
where she was soon revived.