Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

is expected to die in the local hos
pital and six others are in the South
Amboy hospital, suffering from
burns and injuries received as a re-
suit of the fire which occurred at
the Pennsylvania railroad shipping
dock at South Amboy last night.
The damage caused by the fire is
estimated by some at close to ST.
100000. More than twenty-five re-
ceived attention at the local and
South Amboy hospitals and from
doctors who were called to the
scene.
The dead are:
Peter Marion Helies, thirty-one,
1866 Mary street, Elizabeth.
James Gillen, seventeen, 243 Nc
Warter street, Newark.
William GiIIen, eighteen, 24S Nc
Warter street, Newark.
Those seriously injured are:
/ William French, twenty, 20 Goth
ard street, Newark.
| Thomas Kennedy, fifty, 256 David
street, South Amboy.
Frank Wallace, twenty-four, %
Washington street, New York City.
Annis FenzeI, thirty-one, 122 South
Broadway, South Amboy.
Pearl place, Perth Amboy.
Horace Kemerer, twenty-seven. "a
Pearl place, Perth Amboy.
Charles Zanzi, thirty-two, 234
First street, Elizabeth.
The slightly injured are:
Hans johnson, twenty EIGHT, Am
boy road, Sayreville.
Terence Hoare, thirty-four, SIT
Third avenue, New York.
Emory L. Foss, forty-five, Addi-
son. Maine.
Henry Johnson. twenty-six, 123 N.
Bergen street. Staten Island.
Robert Brown. forty-three, barge
Thomas Sheridan.
Milton Fox, twenty-three, 249
Church street, South Amboy.
John Kendell. twenty, Church
street. South Amboy.
Winel Foss, thirteen, barge Ed
ward Howard.
/ Mary Miller. twelve, 239 Henry
street, South Amboy.
Joseph Dolina, twenty-four, Keas-
bey.
Mrs. lanes A. Layden, 1ss sher-
man street, Perth AmbOy.
I Broadway, South Amboy.
Jack Ford, thirty-one, Matawan.
Frank Dolina, eighteen, keasbey.
Stephen Dolina, twenty EIGHT,
Keasbey.
Donald Garretson, tweHty-seyen,
Amboy avenue, Perth Amboy.
Quinton Taylor, nineteen, 256
Market street, Perth Amboy.
L.
started in one of five box cars loaded
with smokeless powder, near a barge
at the docks. The barge also was
partly loaded with powder A fare
up, visible for miles around, was the
start and in a short time it looked
as though the city was threatened.
There were almost 10000 cases
of the smok eless powder being ship
ped by the Atlas Powder Company
from Charleston, s. C, to the Atlas
Powder Company plant at Lake
Hopatcong, in the Pennsylvania yard
and at the dock when the first flare
nm occurred. There were 32,4OO
cases loaded in box cars near the
dock and $500 cases in the barge
Charles McElwain which has been
unloading for a period of about two
weeks. it is said.
Following the first fiareup, em-
ployes of the railroad company start
ed to move the loaded box cars from
the scene of the fire. They were
successful in getting as far as the
overhead bridge over the main hign-
wav leading to this city, when one
of the. three cars went up in names.
cars from this city and other
towns were hurrying to the scene or
( the big fire at the docks when a
second flareup occurred on the
bridge directly above the main high
way. AS a result of this flareup,
lHeiies was burned to death and the
lGiIlen brothers, who died in the To-
cal hospital this morning were burn
ed In addition, eight automobiles
were badly damaged by the burn