Show MAN HEAD HEA FIRST INTO TAR Six Others Hurt In Blaze Cockerel Remains Until Tail Takes Fire Kearny N. N J. J When J.-When When fighting a afire afire afire fire In the Kearny Hat company's factory No 7 Sheridan avenue John Durkin of or Hose Company No 2 tripped over a live Uve wire and then fell headforemost Into a barrel of or hot tar Durkins Durkin's life Ufe was saved only because because be be- cause causo several of or his companions were near him They promptly seized him by the legs and with great effort hauled him out of his sticky prison Tar covered his mouth and was In his nostrils Quickly the other firemen firemen fire fire- firemen men scraped the tar away from Durkin's Durkins Durkins Durkin's Dur Dur- kins kin's mouth so he was able to get his breath Then they called a surgeon surgeon sur sur- sur geon who found the man had been burned badly Six other firemen were injured men fled for their lives and engine were called out from Arlington and Newark to fight the fire tIre which caused a damage of 25 26 For a time it threatened to spread through the to town n and because because because be be- cause of or that extra calls for tor engines were sent out Harry T Tk Boglin BogUn general manager of ot the company had just left his office office of of- fice flee and boarded a train for tor his summer summer sum sum- mer home In Asbury Park when tho the watchman saw aw the flames on the fourth floor of the story five-story ture One hundred men were working working work work- ing In the building All of the women women women wom wom- en had gone to their homes Th The watchman n turned In an alarm and then ran Into the building and shouted a warning A stampede of the men followed In their haste to get out many fell down stairways and were bruised Several firemen were were I cut by falling glass wb when n a large window on the fourth floor broke Huge pieces of glass fell feU Into barrels of hot tar which were In tl the e rear yard of or the factory causing the stuff to spatter and strike three firemen who were burned by it Throughout the fire a white Leghorn Leg Leghorn horn rooster was perched on top of r the building crowing vigorously in spite of or heat and smoke Bets were being made as to whether or not there would be roast chicken when the rooster Its tan tall feathers singed flew fiew to the ground and strutted away |