Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-07
Almost the Ealire Business Portion of
Truekee DESTROYED.

Truekee Destroyed.
IRUcKEE, November cha fire WAS
kindled at l o'clock this mornins in
Woodpile in the rear of the ST I,onis
Brewery and Moody & Richardson's stahle
on Front street. An incendiary was seen
running from the spot, and was chased for
some distance. The wood had been satur-
ated with coal.oil. and the hose which had
been kept in the stable had been stolen.
The stable was in flames in a few minutes.
and fierce gale sprung up. Sparks and
burning fragments flew along the entire
business street
All efforts 10 stop the-fire were Intellectual
until the wind suddenly shifted and drove
the flames back upon the Burning portion
OF the town, and allowed the citizens an
opportunity to put out ihs EreS which had
started in the skating rink, the Skerritt
House, and the Harrison and Stevenson
block.
Supervisor Daniel McPhsters assumed
the leadership of the citzens, and to his
heroic efforts the saving of the entire town
is conceded.
The principal losses are George W. Cur
tiss, stock of drugs, $4,000 partially in
sured; DR.. William CuGtiss' office, furniture
and library, S700: w c. Durno, Postoffice.
building aud stock of dry goods, SIC coo.
insurance $4,000; Mary Ann Moffatt, brick
building, $500, partially insured W ].
Fridays stock of wines and liquors. 81 800,
insured; Gottardi t. Outlets saloon, $500,
no insurance; d. w. Townor, express
office, $3.50, no insurance, all the express
matter saved; ]. f. Moody. express office
building, s. 600, insurance 81 050; o Swan
son, taller 5000, no insurance: G. w. Hum
phrey & Co, market, $500, insured; Truckee
Lumber Company, general merchandise
$4,000, insured; Pacific Lumber and Wood
Company, office furniture, $3.50, insured;
Julius Adolph dry goods, $3, 500, partially
insured; John Fay, saloon stock, $780, Mrs.
A. E. Keyser, building, $500, insurance
$3.50; 6. b. Gentilini, stock of liquors and
cigars, Sl,700, no insurance; Richardson
Bros, office furniture, $500. insured;
Moody Il Richardson's stable, hay
and barley, So 500, insurance ST.
900; Facchini & Leonesis. st. Louis
Brewery, $3.50 no insurance; Dixon
Il Fogarty, saloon stock, 81 900, no insur-
Ance; R. w. Dixon's building and con-
tents, $4,000, no insurance; j. G. Williams,
damsge TO building and stock OF groceries,
$1,000, insured; W. H. Hurd, damage on
brick building, ball, saloon and contents,
s6 coo; Louis Dessoult three buildings,
$4,000, insured for S2l00; James Reed,
residence and contents, $4,000, insurance
81 800; Bertha Jackson, residence and fur
niture, So 600, insurance $1,000; Louis Du
Bois, two resideRces, 50 500. small insur-
ance; Nellie Wade, five dwellings and fur
niture, 10,000, partly insured
The buildings of the Truckee Lumber
Company and Pacific Lumber and Wood
Company, NJ. E. Burkbalter ]. L. Lewison
& Co, J. G.. Williams, Fscchini dx Leonesis,
and G. w. Humphrey & Co. proved fire.
proof. All the Others are a total loss as far
east as Odd Fellows Hall on Front street
A IL l..
Main street.
Three fire trains helped to quench the
confisgration.
Sheriff Bros, Franzini, Harrison, Stew
ems and many others suffered great loss
from breakage in removing goods and
from water. Several buildings were saved
after the fire had burned in roofs and walls.
The Plaza was literally covered with fur
nilnre and goods.
The IRE 10 osilI burning in Hurd's build
ing and the roofs or buildings belonpin1
to Lewison, Williams, and the Truekee
Lumber Company, but no further danger
is anticipated.
Lumber for rebuilding the burnt district
began to arrive on the ground at daylight
and as soon as the fire is extinguished the
work of rebuilding will commence.
vAcAvILLE ALSO VISITED.
VAcAvILLE, November 6th.- At 10
o'clock last night fire broke out in Dut-
tons hay barn in the eastern part of town,
nesr tie depot, and burnt Millers Hotel,
O two-story frame structure; also. his gen.
eral merchandise store across the street.
Sparks communicated the fire to the roof
Of Chandle:s lumber-yard, the largest in
the county, and. owing to the lack of
water quarter of million feet of lumber
was consumed.
The depot building of the Clear Lake and
Veca Valley Railroad living between the
hotel and lumber yard, directly in the path
of the flames and not seventy-five feet
away from MilIer's Hotel, was saved by
the heroic exertions of railroad employees,
who withstood withering heat. and, with
wet sacks tied around them, dashed oat an
incipient blaze.
All the freight books, papers and instru-
ments were removed but Agent Free
quickly got them back after sll danger was
passed, and was ready for business again
this morning.
The loss by the fire will approximate
| S25, 600, and is the third large fire since Au-
| gust 18Th. 1t was undoubtedly of incendi-
ary origin.
Two years ago, on the night of the Presi-
| Dental election, the main portion of the
town was burned by fire starting in
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out last night in the main part of town,
with the wind blowing hurricane, there
would not have been vestige OF Vacaville
| left.
Suicide of an Ex-Pofice Officer.
| SAN Francisco, November 6th.-Ex. Po-
lice Officer Nicholas Berges, while in fit
of delirium, shot and killed himself last
| night in his home at 42S Fell street He
| had been sick from malaria for some time,
and last evening he became delirious and
violent. His wife, fearing that he might
do himself harm, left the house 10 request
a friend to assist her in watching him.