New Britain herald., 1915-02-01
FIRE DEPARTMENT
 BUSY OVER SUNDAY
One Horse Roasted Alive in Blaze :;
 Roof Burned Off House.

Four fires over the weekend, one of which was another of those with a mysterious origin which cannot be ascertained, was the sum total of the work done by the fire department Sat urday night and Sunday. Tn one of the fires one horse was burned to death and four others injured, and in another the roof was burned off a Much Trouble at First Fire. The first fire was at 11:25 o'clock Saturday night, when Engine com pany No. 1 was called out by a still alarm to Oak street, where new house was a mass of flames The fire had started in the cellar on the north side, where it was not notice able from the street, and before it was discovered it had burned it's way up through the partitions to the roof Before it was extinguished the entire roof had been burned off. Cassando Carriani owns the place and the dam age is placed at s1,O00.
 What makes this fire look the more myst erious is the fact that it was a vacant house. The family which oc- cupied the lower tenement moved out several days. Incendiarism is again suspected.
 After getting the fire under con- trol the firemen found they were un- able to shut off the water in the hydrant. Chief Dame raced down to John Maher's house and got him out of bed At the hydrant the foreman of the water com missioners found he had left his street wrench al the city building, so he had to chase down there and get it. Finally the water was turned off in the street and at 2:3o o'clock, cold and wet, the fire men were able to return to their sta tion Under ordinary conditions they
 would have been back at 12:3o o'clock.
 Small Chimney Fire. Fire number two took place yes terday afternoon when the chimney 1 on E. M. Norths house at No. 396 l West Main street took fire Engine company Mo- 1 was called out There was no damage.
 Horse Roasted Alive. At 6:55 o'clock last evening the | department was called out by an alarm from Box 47 the fire being in 1 the barn owned by I. Swarsky in the l rear of No. II Oak street. An inn l patient horse had kicked over a
 lantern, setting the place on fire. The l tremen managed to get four of the l five horses out but a fifth beast was l roasted alive. The four horses saved l were all badly choked with smoke 1 ard one of them was painfully burned 8 bout the hind quarters and it is not ] known whether or not they will all ] live. MT. SWarsky is of the opinion 1 that they will never be fit for service
 again. The damage to the barn was
 comparatively little
 More Apparatus Needed 1 It was while the department was l fighting this blaze that a new alarm came in from Box Al, at the corner l of North and Sexton streets. This 1 necessitated the bringing out of all | the city apparatus and for some tima 1 the city south of the railroad tracks
 was left unprotected. Had bad fire 1 occurred in the south part of the city l while all the apparatus was working
 ill the northern section most disas-
 trous results might have followed
 The lire in question was in the
 tenement house at No. 61 North street
 and occupied by A. Hamila. An over 1 heated store set fire to the woodwork. 1 There was not much damage done.
 Twenty-thrcc Fires Last Month.
 The month of January, just ended,