The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-23
FIREMAN DISABLED
TRYING TO BOARD
SPEEDING FIRE TRUCK

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Shoulder Bone Broken--Automob
Fire Truck Collided with Au-
tomobile-Alam Was
for Fire in Barn.
route fraught with hazards was thai
which led from the fire station to tn,
scene of a barn blaze at Is Third street
Saturday night and before three pieces
of the city's fire fighting apparatus hao
finished responding to an alarm from
box Ia at the Second street corner OF
North Main street, two OF the crews had
encountered accidents. The first occurred
in front of the Wheelock property in the
business section when Charles Imlah OF
Long street, in attempting to get
aboard the hook and ladder truck, missed
his hold and fell under one of the rear
wheels. He is at the City hospital, where
physicians are treating him for a broken
shoulder bone, two deep scalp wounds
and bruise on the femur bone. Almost
at the same moment, although farther
down the line, the auto fire truck ran
into a Jeffrey touring car filled with
soldiers at the corner of Brook and North
Main streets. The clash resulted in a
draw, for the damage was fairly well
| divided between the two motor cars. The
barn fire, which started, it Is believed,
hay, was on the premises of Carlo Or
land and Ernesto Dernivic, and entailed
loss of $500, covered by insurance in the
G. II. Pape agency.
The alarm sounded at l0:05 o'clock,
just as the congestion Of night traffic on
North Main street was beginning to
abate. Combination No. l., the auto
truck, was manned by small crew of
regulars and operated by Mario Zanleoni.
Following closely were the second chem
ical outfit and the horse-drawn hook and
ladder truck Imlah was standing near
the Miles granite building when he at
tempted to hop aboard the latter. The
horses had struck their pace and Driver
James McKernan had his attention riv-
eted on his charges when Imlah, darting
from the curbing made for the running
board, only to miss hold and fall to
the paving Bystanders opined that the
young man was run over by rear wheel. |
As the truck swept past Imlah was
picked up in bruised and bleeding con-
dition and removed to the Red Cross |
Pharmacy. where medical attendance was
summoned A few minutes afterward |
the Perry 4 Noonan ambulance was
called and the injured man was taken
to the City hospital. The scapular frac
ture was a serious one and abrasions
about the patients head were so deep
as to lay open the scalp. His condition
Yesterday was described as comfortable |
and to-day much the same.
1t was Just north Of the Brook street
corner that the auto truck encountered
trouble. The Jeffrey car, owned and
iriven by Burlington man, had just
wheeled out Of Brook street and was
near the curbing on the east side of
North Main street when the spot light
IN the fire truck disclosed its proximity.
Driver Zanleoni states that he was pre-
Jared to allow plenty of leeway for the
curing car when two small children
tarted to cross the street from the west I
de. Thereupon he wheeled sharply to {
he right and in so doing came in con
act with the touring car. The collision ,
anne with such force that the tenders on !
ne side of the Jeffrey car were badly ,
ammed and one of the rear tenders of
he fire truck was bent. The blow had s
he effect of disarranging the rear run '
ing board of the chemical auto, but it r
Tas not put out OF commission and after 9
brief halt the crew continued on its i
'ay. IF
The Jeffrey managed to proceed on its
wn power to garage, where the car
as repaired in time to permit the oc-
1pants to return to Burlington before U
lidnight. The driver called at the FIRE
alton and conferred with Chief Glad
ing before going back to Burlington.
esterday the firemen made the veces- "
try repairs to the auto truck and it NJ
as back in commission before noon. C
feOple living III Tue uouse JDiutlf w l.
lpied by the families of Messrs. orland o.
I'd Dernivic discovered the Are in a N
,rn at the rear of the lot. Within few
oments after the alarm was sounded, lpal.
70 streams of water were playing on y
e building and five minutes afterward =,
e all-out sounded, although members :,
the department remained on the prem D,
5 until $3.50 o'clock Sunday morning. -
ice OF twice dwelling houses near the 81
rning barn were in danger of being Ii
orched. but the fremen used extreme nj
re in guarding against a bigger blaze flo
d within short time the fire was well ac
der control. A considerable quantity
hay was burned and the roof of the ms
rn was ruined. It was stated that an
cen hay was unloaded in the loft tu
ursday or Friday and after a diligent an
,uiry Chief Gladding reached the con- ed
sion that spontaneous combustion was to'
; origin. hl'