Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-16
FIRE AT SPOKANE.
The Charred Remains of Man Dis
covered in the Ruins.

SPOKANE Falls Wash. J, May 15th.-At
$50 O'clock this morning fire broke out
in three-story frame building occupied by
Peter Hauses as saloon and lodging house,
and situated on Howard street, near the
corner of Second. The flames spread with
alarming rapidly, burning both ways, and
being famed by strong breeze 1t at once
became apparent that there was lack of
water, as the streams supplied from the
hydrants would not reach the top of two
and three-story frame buildings. A ladder
was run up and hose was carried to the top
in the effort to throw water on the build
ings, but it soon became so hot that the
tiremen could not stand it. They had no
sooner come down than the fronts fell in.
and in few minutes the entire row of
buildings on Howard street, from the cor
ner OF Second south to the alley, was in
flames. The wind continued to rise, and
burning firebrands were carried to the tops
of the houses block distant. The firemen
then turned their attention to preventing
the flames from crossing Howard street,
in which they were unsuccessful. The
fronts of the two-storv buildings across the
street, occupied by Farmer Bros grocery
store, a secondhand store, Krapes' tailor
shop, the Boston bakery, a carpenter shop,
all with lOdging-houses up stairs, were soon
ablaze. By this time the Silsby steamer
was at work, and threw streams which soon
checked the fire on the east side of How
ard street by the time it had reached the
Methodist Tabernacle. This building was
partially destroyed, and from the corner of
Second and Howard all buildings were
burned to the ground. DR.. J. E. Gandy's
one story frame building on Second street,
fifty feet front, was completely Quilted. Ad-
ditionaI streams were applied to the build
ings on the west side of the street, and the
fire was checked after the buildings had
been partially burned.
The firemen did efficient work consider
ing the meager water supply. Sam Fryer,
one of the men, had q narrow escape from
death. He was at work in the lodging.
house over Hansen's saloon when he
found man in one of the rooms on the
second floor suffering from suffocation. He
grabbed the man by the leg and started to
drag him to one of the front windows.
Just as Fryer reached the window flames
broke into the room, and he had to aban-
don the man in order to save himself. He
jumped to the ground and escaped with
comparatively slight injuries. j. B. Cos
tello, ledger in the house, finding escape
by the stairway shut off, made for the front
window and leaped from the second story.
The extent of Costello's injuries are not at
present known, but it is thought that he
has received serious internal injuries. May
Maher, Hattie Thompson and John Sew
ara, all of the same house. received severe
burns about the face and arms.
The fire was caused by the bursting of
lamp. AT 4:30 o'clock the charred remains
OF man who was burned in the Lenore
lodging house were found in the ashes. 1t
is also reported that an infant met its death
in the same building. The exact losses
are not yet known, but they cannot be far
from $4,000.