Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-18
FIRE LAST NIGHT.
4 $50, 900 Blaze-Good Work by the
Ffremen.


AT las last night an alarm of fire was
tsounded from box -, Second and n streets.
The Fire Department responded promptly,
as did the Central Pacific yard engine Gov
ernor Stanford. The fire broke out In VIM
Gutenbergers foundry, Second and n
streets. and in a moment enveloped the
frame building adjoining and extended to
the Pioneer Hotel, kept by Mrs. Charles A.
Blodpett. The inmates of the hotel most
| of whom were in bed and asleep, escaped
rs best they could. D. J. Long, who hap
! pened to pass at that time, rushed up stairs,
aroused all the inmates, and carried from
one of the rooms to the sidewalk young
lady who was almost suffocated and
but for his efforts would have persisted.
Miss May Blodgett, who was abed escaped
through the flames, her feet badly burned. |
An invalid, whose name could not be OBJ
tuned, escaped just before the building fell
in, but was badly burned So far as can |
be learned, there was no loss of life, but |
the escape of some twenty men and women |
in their night-clothes was marvellous. An |
aged gentleman by the name of Chris |
! Keever broke through a window and |
leaped to the sidewalk. He was badly cut |
by the glass and singed with the fire, which |
he says enveloped his bed when he left it. |
The buildings burned were first Guten-
berger's brick foundry, and his wooden
additions; the Pioneer Hotel next on the
north, pioneer building double frame
building, owned by Friend d Terry; VIM.
Hadwick's building, and a barn on the |
alley. The Friend & Terry Lumber Com
pany also lost few hundred posts and a
small pile of lumber. The insurance on
Gutenberger's, Hadwick's and Friend d |
Terry's property will cover half their loss.
Mr.. Blodgett said he had no insurance. ].
| A. Cole kept n saloon in the Friend d
Terry building, and lost everything. 1t
could not be ascertained whether he was
| insured, nor whether the other losers of
property, residing in the buildings, had
any insurance. Mr. Renfro lost five or six
hop presses, which were in the GuteAberger
| buildings and were uninsured. The total
| loss, including Mr.. Gutenberger's machin-
| cry, patterns, etc, is estimated as
! being in the. neighborhood of $4,000.
! The fire spread so rapidly after it got start
| ed. and consumed so much light material,
that the blaze became extremely hot, and
| cinders like the sparks from fireworks,
| flew noTthward in a cloud. The firemen
| worked heroically, and it was universally
| remarked that for SO small force they
managed what threatened to be a great |
couflagration in a mastery manner
They were handicapped by scarcity {
of water, the main running through :,
the alley between Front and Second '
streets, and from which all the streams
were drawn, not furnishing supply suffi- 3
cient to enable the engines to get water '
pressure of more than forty pounds until .
the fire was subdued, and the hydrant !
pressure was less than thirty. 1t was ,
fortunate that there was but light wind =
prevailing, else the Friend & Terry Lum- 3
Der Companys yard would scarcely have
been saved. As it was a sudden change of
the wind from the south to the north while
the fire was at its hottest, assisted the fire.
men in saving the yard. 1t was remarked r
that after the extreme peril was over the f
wind shifted back to the south again. The c
steamers moored alongside the leyee were
Ill great danger while the cinders {
were flying, but were soon removed. /
The wharf was also threatened, a
but the Governor Stanford wet it and every ;
thing around it down well, and then did
excellent service on the burning buildings. V
The uptown hose carriage came down. as c
its supply of hose was needed and the ex- !
ira engine was brought out, but did not get '
into service. The cause of the fire is un- !
known. Mr.. Gutenberger says that the !
furnace of the foundry was not in use ;
during the previous day, nor was there any i
opportunity for the fire to have started i
from the boiler-rOom.
TRANsPLANTED PoTATOEs.-Residents of c
the town Of Washington exhibited in the |
RECORD L MON office last evening some 5
very fine specimens of large ripe potatoes, d
grown upon lot IN that town. 1t will be
recollected that last spring reference was II
made to the fact that a resident of Wash 0
ington, Jake" as he was designated, was t
engaged in pumping the overflow water h
from his lot, and his neighbors laughed at
him for endeayoring, as they said, to pump a
out Yolo county. He rather got the best n
of the joke, however, for the water was >
finally got rid of, and the potatoes referred u
to above are from his piece of ground "
They were sprouted in boxes of earth long y
before the soil in the lot was ready to re- OF
ceive them, and the plants were several in
ches in hight when they were transplanted 4
to the lot on the 18th of last May, and yes Is
terday, two months later, the hills were s
well filled with as large potatoes as could W
be desired. The gentleman who raised h
them thinks the most interesting part of
the matter is in the fact that when trans ft
planted there was none of the original \
seed potato removed with them-they took L
their second growth from the roots that had u
sprouted. K
AUCTION SALEs.-Bell & Co. will sell at b
auction at 10 A. NJ. to-day at their sales N
room, Eighth and X streets, fine marble A
top bedroom set, bookcase, 10-foot extension f.
table, feather pillows, holsters and rugs st
walnut bedsteads, spring and top mat j
tresses three-quarter bedSteads and mat
resses bed lounge, tables, chairs, lounges, Is
carpets, Crockery, glassware. woodenware IN
etc. Also, counter and complete outfit fer q
saloon or restaurant......The same firm will c
sell ut 10 A. NJ. next Monday, at the resi-
dence of DR.. Collins, No 81 Sixth street, f.
between | and j, on account of the depart M
urc of the owner for the East an elegant +
7-octaye Mathushek piano, costing $3.50 81
handsome marble-top walnut set. spring N
and hair mattresses, bedding, two cottage
sets, chromOs, paintings lace curtains and f.
cOrniceS, lounges, Brussels and other car W
pets, dining-room furniture, crockery, glass N
and plated ware, refrigerator, gasoline cook
stove, extension table, Singer sewing ma h,
chine tables and fixtures of dreSsmaking II
room, garden hose and tools. Also, med W
ical works, students lamp, etc,
TIE PowELLsoN CAsR.-The San Fran II
cisco Examiner of yesterday had the follow "
ing reference to this matter, heretofore men,
toned in the RECoRD-USIoN THE case Ii
of James PowellSon, who was acquitted on Sc
a charge of enticing Lille Nichols, young
girl, to a life fproStitution, has been taken II
in hand by the Grand Jury Since her in W
generation ON Monday last in the Magda-
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very nice letters, in which she processes re- d.
pentance and makes promises for future e
good conduct. She has also made a written >
adhering 10 her former declara-
ton accusing Poweilson and affirming that o.
she will stick to that declaration. The o.
Grand Jury found an Indictment against 81
and he was arrested last night ii
on bench warrant issued by Judge "
Toohy." a
Il
FooT RAcING.-Robert Allen, lessee of
Agricultural Park, announces foot race of
125 yards, to take place at the Park on e.
the 9th instant, for purse of c
$500 800 to the first man and 800 to the n
second 1t is to be handicap, J. c. Ryan, Il
who has recently done such fast work at s
Woodland, starting from the scratch; Mas t.
terSon given ~ yards Rose and Geary, y t.
yards; McIntire, Gilpin and Moore, , Ia
yards; Mclaughlin, s yards; Woods, i
yards and Lcrnigan, yards. Any others S
who desire to enter are free to do so, to be T
handicapped after the entries close, which F
will be next Wednesday Entrance, $40, C
This programme should bring together D
some of the best men in the State, and re- d
suit in a fine display of speed.