San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-05
The Daily Eight.
MONDAY, JANUARY 8. 1891.
THE FIRE.
Vogers Livery and Boarding Stable
Attacked by the Flames.

v ogers Livery and Boarding Stable
Attacked by the Flames.
This morning at 10 o'clock Mr.. F.
Vogel's large livery and boarding
stable, situated on Blum street, just
south of the Menger hotel, was dis
covered to be afire, and soon the
flames gained such headway as to be-
come almost unextingulshable. How
ever, soon as the alarm was gwen the
fire department responded very
promptly and in 10 minutes there
were seven streams of water playing
on the fire, and five companies of fire.
men were working like beavers to ar
rest the progress of the element The
neighboring merchants, clerks, work
men and others came to the as
sistance of Mr.. Vogel and of the fam
lilies who lived in the little street or
alley on the south of the stable and in
trice all the horses and carriages in
the lower floor of the stable, as well
as the hearses of the undertaking
department, and the books and
papers and iron safe of the
office were moved to place
of safety. The harness room was
emptied and its contents saved. The
furniture of the adjoining houses was
also saved. Upstairs large number
of buggies and vehicles belonging to
various gentlemen who keep their
horses at the stable were left, and
these were subjected to the heat,
smoke and water and will be damag-
ed somewhat. All on the upper floor
is insured; the loss will therefore be
slight.
BY II o'clock the fire, thanks to the
hremen, was under control
and the building was saved with
but little damage to it.
The fire started in the upper south
west corner of the building among
the hay, of which there was about
ton and a half. This was furthest re-
moved from the vehicles and thus
they did not burn. How the fire
started is unknown. Mr.. Vogel says he
was i'm the office at the telephone when
his men gave the alarm and after he
informed Seen trail" he ran up and
found his men terror stricken and the
flames gaining great Roadway. He
told them to get out the horses and
this they did. Three of the animals
ran back in the smoke but were again
driven out and saved.
The building is owned by Mr..
III. d. Kampmann Mr.. Vogel,
while the smoke was almost
impenetrable rushed into the
building to see If the three horses
were in there. He was overcome by
the smoke and fell to the floor. Mr..
Mayer of Meyer SCHNEIDER e.. Burgo-
wer, carried him out and revived him.
Two firemen ON q ladder in the
front window on Blum street fell and
the hose got away from them. 1t
switched about for while, and was
finally caught by several firemen
who were sent up.
The occupants Of the house adjoin-
ing the stable in the little alley east
of the Catholic church, moved out
with bag and baggage in hurry.
One of the families was that of Mr.
MacGoldrick, q butcher on the Aran-
sas Pass road. Mrs. MacGoldrick
who is critically ill brought on by
recent child birth, was removed to a
neighbOring house where she was
cared for.
The family of Mr.. Albrecht, also
living in the same house moved their
entire outfit into the street and had
q number of articles stolen. Not
much damage, however, was done to
the adjoining houses.
The entire stock of the undertaking
department, excepting few samples
which are kept at the Houston street
office, and one fine hearse was lost.
This includes the fine white hearse
which was kept on the upper floor.
The loss in the undertaking depart
ment amounts to something like
$1,000.
Mr.. Hutchinson was not at the
stable when the fire broke out, but he
anihilsted the distance between him
on Houston street aud the stable in
short order, when he heard that the
ii ames were in his establishment,
and he worked like Troja when he
reached the stable. He stated that
at the time of the fire there were four
hacks, forty-six buggies two hearses,
8 number of sets of harness and
sixty-three horses in the stable. All
of the horses were saved.
A hose nozzle fell on negro's
head and laid open the scalp a little.
Jennie Calef Coming.
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