Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-24
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Fire AT Dutch Fiat Chinatown Destroyed.
DUTcH Flat, October 22d-An of Dutch
Flat Chinatown, embracing about sixty
houses. was destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss about S25, 600 No houses occupied by
white people were injured. Rebuilding will
commence at once. A few mud buildings,
With their contents, were saved.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
DUTCH Flat, O5tobsr 22l-The fire In
Chinatown originated from some ignited
pieces Of pitch pine that fell from stove.
It started at about quarter before G, and IN
less than an hour and half there was not
house left standing. Four adobe buildings.
with their contents, are ulipjured, but the
second stories Of wood that mad been built
upon them, were consumed. The town was
recently supplied at considerable cost with
good system of pipes with hydraulic pressure,
and it is believed that an intelligent effort
would have suppressed the flames or confined
them to one block. The Chinese were terror
stricken as soon as the flames were diseov-
cred, and seemed powerless either to battle
with the fire or save their goods Some of the
more enterprising are already clearing off the
debris, preparatory to building, Considerable
sums were carried by insurance companies in
San Francisco. but no reliable data as TO what
companies can be obtained. Carlin & David
son lose seven or eight houses Towle Bros.
lose ten. and other parties lnse smaller Rurn-
bers. This makes the third time within a
few years that the town has been entirely
consumed. The burned district extends to
within about 100 feet Of the Central Pacific
track.
A Ghasiiy Discoyery.
STOCKTON, October 22d-While vsquero
employed by Louis Gerlsch was driving cattle
on the Myers ranch, two miles northwest OF
this city, his horse stepped into a soft place
in the ground and went down two or three
feet. The vaquero made an examination ss
soon as his horse had recovered himself, and
found thet the animal has crushed through
the sod into trunk, the top of which he
had broken through. In the trunk were
found the remains of human being, which
were very much decomposed, the most OF the
flesh being off the bones. A leg and one arm
protruded from the boz, being forced up by
the horses foot An examination of the
trunk was made and il was found that the
remains were those Of q Chinaman. The po-
lice are confident that ths corpse is that Of a
Chinaman who died on Canal street last spEiDg
in the same house which was afterward
burned by order of the Board Of Hesith.
The police worked on tho case then for some
time and learned that the Chinsmsn living
in it had bought trunk of this kind, and
had hired wagon to take it away. It was
known that smallpox existed there, and that
several persons contracted the disease by
coming in contact with the old clothes left
therein. The trunk was locked and bound
with iron hoops AS yet. nothing has been
done with the remains.
The California" TO be Reopened.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 22d-The San
Francisco agent of j. HI. Haverly yesterday
concluded lease with the owners Of the Cal
ifornia Theater for period Of three years, to
, run from January !, 1882. On that date the
theater will be opened under the pew man
agement.