Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-12
QUITE A FIRE.
Several Houses on Temple Street and
Broadway Go Up in Smoke.


About $50 yesterday morning fire
broke out in the one-story building &C.
cupied by Thomas Brindley as grocery
store, OH Temple street, and in short
time had assumed serious dimensions.
Mr.. Brindley opened the store as usual,
and lighted lamp and gas stove in
room adjoining the store. He then went
into the store for a moment, and upon
returning discovered the back room to
be in a blaze. The alarm was given,
but before the department arrived the
fire had spread to the adjoining build
ing, owned by Mr.. Brindley and occu-
pied by Mr.. and Mrs. Newly as tailor
shop and dwelling, while the upper
story was inhabited by Mr.. Lloyd.
The fire reached two-story frame
tenement house owned by Judge Red
dick and occupied on the ground floor by
two colored families named Tibbett and
Craw ford, and the brick building known
as the Clifton house, and occupied by
William Reinstein as a hotel. The
roomers were aroused and succeeded in
saving their effects. The second story
of the tenement house was used by w.
w. Bobb as a storeroom for his tools.
The colored families Jared well, as all
their goods were saved, and the loss will
be nominal.
When the department arrived, the
usual difficulty-lack of WATERWAYS en-
countered. After the water was OBJ
tanned, the hose broke several times, but
in the face of these difficulties, the boys
did noble work in preventing the fire
from gaining material Roadway. The
chemical engine was used with excel
lent results, as it probably saved the
Clifton.
A brave fight was also made by the
people in the Clifton house against the
fire. buckets upon buckets of water was
being thrown on the fire, but the heat
gradually drove the workers away and
soon the north side of the building was
on fire, which was only subdued after
all the rooms on that side had either
been burnt out or flooded with water.
and it was fortunate that the building
was OF brick, as it prevented the
spread OF the fire toward First street,
which would have greatly endangered
large part of the dwelling as we'll as
the business portion OF the city. A
small frame house in the rear of the
tenement, used by Mr.. Reinstein as
storeroom, was slightly damaged. The
second story of the tenement house was
entirely destroyed, while the lower part
was pretty thoroughly flooded.
The frame buildings in which the fire
originated were burned completely to
the ground, hardly single thing being
saved Next to them was a one.etory
brick block owned by Judge Reddick,
and occupied as various stores, of which
the shoe shop of Mr.. A. Bley sustained
damages by water to the extent of $50.
Grocery store OF Mr.. f. j. King, $50,
due TO water.
Judge Reddick's loss, as given by his
agent. was about $4,000, covered by in
surance.
Mr.. Brindley owned the house occu-
pied by Mr.. Newly, valued at $500, in
sured for $3.50, and lost his stock, val
ued at $500, insured for $500.
Mr.. Newby's loss, after getting his
insurance OF $3.50, will be in the neigh
borhood OF 500.
Mr.. LLOYD lost all his household eff
fects, valued at about $3.50.
The loss OF Mr.. Reinstein was mainly
On household effects, being about $1,000.
nearly covered by insurance.
Mrs. Reinstein lost purse contain
ing $35. Many other depredations were
committed, but in the hurry and ex-
citement the thieves were not caught.
No praise is too great to the fire de-
pertinent for their work, as also Chief
Moore, as they certainly saved the city
from very serious confagration.
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