Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-20

With the arrival of the engines
from departments of surrounding
towns, the, pressure was somewhat
increased. The manufacturing end
of the Carborundum company plant
is situated along the water front.
One building on the property OF
the General Ceramics Company WAS
damaged when the flames spread 70
1t. but the firemen directed their
attention to extinguishing this blaze
so as to save that plant. The fact
that the wind was blowing away
from the General Ceramics plant
is believed responsible for the saw
ing of that property.
Clouds of smoke rolling into the
air were visible for some distances
around from the time the first alarm.
went in until after}2 O'clock. II Is
said that some Insurance. is carfle$3
by the Carborundum company, nNt ".
| the probable damage - z --resulke.s$zz7 =Sz
! he fire or the total amount OF In
! surance carried could not be learned,
News Correspondents Hurt
Erich Schuster, a volunteer fire.
man of the Keasbey fire department.
and Keasbey correspondent Of the
News. fell from the roof of one Of
the buildings while fighting the fire,
He staggered to a nearby telephone
to notify the News office about the
fire, and then returned to the scene
of the blaze to render whatever as
sistance possible. Later he was
ordered to his home. but refused TO
| leave the scene of the fire.
Poor water pressure was respon-
sible for the fire gaining such head
way, and it was found necessary to
| f.ifx o..
tuchen and Fords to assist in the fire
| fighting The Mcclellan Engine com.
pany and the Eagle Hose & Chcmi-
cal company were called to the scene
ITO aid in hating the spread of the
flames, after Chief Harry Tooker had
been communicated with. Chief
Tooker is at the scene aiding in di-
recting the fight.
/ Until the arrival of the two Perth
! Amboy companies little water pres
! sure could be brought to bear upon
| the flames Streams from the mains
| were playing on the fire, but proved
! to be Intellectual The Eagles of
! Perth Amboy, were sent to the fac
| tory dock where they connected
with the water in the Raritan river
and relayed to the engine of the
Lincoln Company. The Lincolns, in
! turn. pumped into a siafnese con-
rection, making two high pressure
streams available.
| With these two extra streams II -
| thought that the blaze may be kept
I from spreading to the brick builds
ngs at the river side of the plant.
! A frame building now in flames Is
attached to one of the main build
ines and the efforts OF the fireme'l
are bent toward preventing us
spread. undoubtedly the main build
ings would have been destroyed had
| not the arrival of the Perth Amboy
companies afforded additional hlgn
, pressure streams of water.
DR.. Edward X. Hanson and ~.
William Mccormick are ON the scene
and are attending the injured per-
sons. \ number of people were hurt
| by flying glass, some were sllshtiv
burned. and others are sutterlns
from partial suffocation from the
dense clouds of smoke. Included
among these are several firemen.
Great excitement ensued when one
of the fire fighters, was missed ana
it was thought he was in one OF tHe
! burning buildings, overcome DN
smoke. A frantic search, however,.
resulted in Jensen's discovery,
work in safety.