San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-01
THE FIRE.
TWO LUMBER SHEDS DES.
TKOYED.
Martin & Schryver's Lumber Yards
Burned For the Third Time.

Saturday night at 1850 O'Clock the
fire department was called out by
an alarm from box 2l3, corner of Wal
nut and Burnett streets and also
from one at the corner of Austin and
Crosby streets. The second alarm
was soon turned 10, which called out
the whole department.
1t was fully five minutes after the
fire had started before the alarm was
turned in. The first stroke of the
gong had hardly sounded before the
fire engines were on the street as
most had been warned before the
alarm was sounded.
The Sunset hose company was fret
to reach the fire, which was
found to be the lumber yards
of Martin & Schryver, which oc
cupy the whole block bounded
by Hayes, Burnett, Cherry and Wal
nut streets.
Engine No. soon followed and
commenced work at the corner OF
Hayes and Walnut street; the End
ward hose company attached their
hose to No. 2 and commenced fight.
ing at the northeast corner with Sun
set hose company, who were attached
to a water plug at the corner of Hayes
and Cherry streets; No. l worked from
q plug at the corner of Cherry and
Burnett streets, using the hoae from
number ones hose cart; the Mission
hose company was attached to plug
at the corner of Walnut and Burnett
streets. Thus the whole department
had water from within block of the
fire. The fire originated from the
southeast corner of the east shed and
spread with astounding rapidlty. 1t
was first discovered by Miss Bertha
Sonnen who was returning home
from the city.
Night yardman Hess, on the Su /.
set, tried, with his men and the
switch engine, to save two cars of
lumber but found it impossible as
they were already afire when he ar.
rived at the sheds.
The whole of the eastern shed was
burning before the fire department
had arrived. A number of people
who arrived on the spot fret claim to
have smelled kerosene oil which
would lead to the belief that arson
had been committed. This would be
easy to believe as it is the third time
that the sheds have burned, and each
time they caughtin an instant. The
fremen worked hard at the fire and
by two o'clock yesterday
morning they bad the de-
mon under control in spite of the
clustering heat. The fire was totally
extinguished yesterday afternoon.
Last night the department was
called out to the same place to work
ON small fire, consisting of few
boards, which could have been ex
tinguished by bucket of water, but
some enc turned in an alarm to see
the firemen run. On its way to an
swer the alarm from box 213, corner
of Walnut and Burnett streets. en-
CINE No. 2 was stopped on Burnett
street by breaking Its tongue, but as
luck would have 1T the fire was out
almost as soon as the department and
spectators had reached the place.
The exact amount of damage
done is not known, but it
will probably reach the amount of
$50, 900, which is fully covered by in
surance.
Several thousand feet of lumber
were saved in the western shed.
The whole of the east shed was des-
troyed along with eighteen cars of
barbed wire.
Mr.. Schryver is not in the city, but
is somewhere in the east, while Mr..
Martin is also away. The latter
scarcely ever visits this city as he
makes the north his home.
Some think the sheds were fired by
tramps, but the universal opinion is
that arson was committed. This is
the third time these sheds have been
fred and every time in the same pc
culiar manner.