Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-14
FOLSOM'S FIRE.
DISASTROUS INCENDIARY CON.
FLAGRATION At FOLSOM.
More than Half the Business Sec
ton Destroyed-Loss Fully $780,
0OO-Partial Insurance.

two miles from this city, on the Sacramento
Valley Railroad. Q fire broke ont thst
proved greatly destru ctive, destroying half
the business section of the place. As soon
as possible an engine, with two water cars,
was sent ffom this city by the railroad
company. Warden McComb sent force
of guards from the State Prison, mile
away, who did excellent service in check
ing TIE fire The news of the heavy loss
estimated at $4,000, was received in this
city with universal expressions Of regret
and warm sympathy for the people Of Fol
som. a reporter of the RECORD UNION,
dispatched to the scene of the disaster,
specially telegraphs these details
Special by telegraph to the RRCoRD-USIoN.l
FOLSOM, August 14th-A. M.-At P. N.
yesterday fire broke out in Chas. Weber's
harness shop, on the east side of Suffer
street, in the upper part Of the business
portion of town. The flames spread to
Milier's furniture and undertaking estab-
lishment, on the south, and on the same
side of the street Muller's matchmaking
establishment, the German Hotel, C
Zimmerman, proprietor schuttler, shoe
maker; Adams blacksmith shop andHouse's
marble works. It then crossed Suffer
street to the Central Hotel and the Natoma
Is inery, and from there to the Natoma
Company's drying establishment II
crossed from the German Hotel to Miss
Mills millinery store. and next to Sperry's
blacksmith shop, destroying It, Mrs. Eos
ters dwelling and livery stable, q barber
shop, Judge Crossett's Office, and L. I.
Yager's saloon and restaurant From there
it spread to the railroad property, destroy
ing the woodsheds and 200 or 800 cords of
wood, burning the track in front Of the sheds
distance of $50 feet; J, F. Humps
grocery, Brown & Yagers hardware store,
Grace's hotel, Hockel's barber-shop, Mrs.
Lewis frame building Ecklon & Cables
butcher-shop. L. Joergger's boot-maker
shop, Louis Humps saloon, and many
other buildings of little value. This con-
fiagration is the most serious that has
taken place in this town for many years,
destroying nearly the entire business por-
ton of the place. The town has no sys-
TEN of waterwOrks, and the fire was be-
You'd control from the moment II started,
leaping from building to building and
across the streets with remarkable rapid
ity. Men with buckets did what they
could to check its progress, but once under
Roadway the citizens could but look on and
see their property consumed, powerless to
check IT, The railroad company sent a
locomotive from Sacramento with two
water tanks, and did excellent service, and
to this assistance the saving of the balance
Of the town is due. BY their use there
lumber yard and other property. The
heaviest losers were the Natoma Wa
ter and Mining Company, which
lost its winery and hotel, a valuable
property, and their large new Alden fruit
dryer, which was recently erected at q cost
OF $4,000. The winery had an insurance
upon it, but the other property was unin-
sured. A large quantity of wine vinegar
and hay was destroyed. Brown & Wager,
hardware merchants, had a large stock and
in brick building; loss, $4,000; partially
insured. L. T. wager, 5000; insurance.
$500 C. Zimmerman, loss 81, 900 in
sured one-haf. J. Miller, loss $4,000;
partially insured J. F. Klumpp
$1,000; $500 insurance Mrs. Fos-
ter, $4,000; about one.half insured
N. Perry, 81, 500; Judge Crosette 1900, no
insurance; Ecklon & Gable, $1,000; Ike
Fiel, s., 600, insurance 81, 500; John Grace,
$1,000; L. Lyons, $1,000 Mrs. Lewis,
$1,000; J. C. G. Mueller, $1,000, no insur-
ance; f. NJ. Odom, $1,000, no insurance
C. Weber, $1,000 partial insurance; l.
Joerger, $500; Louis T. Klumpp, $500
Miss Mills, $500; railroad company, s. 500;
C. Jolly, 1900. Total loss to t1e town
about $150, 900 but which may per
haps figure up to De greater. The in
surance will not foot up to more than
5000 a man by the name of John
L. Houx had his head badly hurt by a fall
ing bucket Six brick buildings were de-
stroyed. The fire was checked by Burn
hams brick building on one side of the
street, and Smith on the other. The only
business houses that escaped in the block |
were those of Jolly, Borges, Ely, Fiels,
Burnham, Levy and Newman. The Fol- |
som Telegraph in the same block escaped |
the flames. The saloons were all free, bar
rels OF whisky were rolled in the street, and |
the exhausted men drank freely. Four or
five roughs started q row about half |
past 5, and continued it until half-past |
s. During the melee young man named |
Emil Miller undertook to separate Frank |
Myers and man by the name of Cole |
baker He vas in the act of taking beer |
maliet out of Myers hands, when it is said |
that William Farmer. blacksmith, |
stabbed him. The knife entered his left |
breast directly over the heart, and produced |
serious if not fatal wound. Farmers |
friends say he did not do the stabbing, but |
it is understood that Miller accuses him of |
it. Miller is p quiet, sober young man, |
and the unfortunate occurrence isregretted |
by all.
at this writing q A. NJ the town is quiet |
and in smoldering ruins.
The FIRE, it is claimed, was set by man |
by the name of Henry Weber, drunken, |
good-for-nothing individual, who, il is re-
ported, has threatened to burn the town |
tonight. He is sleeping off drunk be |
meath the trees near the railroad station, |
everyone refusing TO have anything to do |
with him It is q wonder he was not |
hanged by the Infatuated people. 1t is
thought he set fire to his room after having |
a row with his father.