The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
FIRES ON THE FOUR TIL
Only Eleven Calls Made on the
Fire Department TO Mid.
night.
0le Bad Blaz; on Stockton Street
Completely Gutted a Fancy
Dry Goods Store.

During the twenty-four hours of the
Fourth of July the Fire Department was
only called out eleven times, while in for
mer years the enginesrwere on the run all
of the time and frequently the mum ber of
alarms reached nearly hundred. Last year
but fourteen alarms were sounded, but
this Fourth all previous records were
broken, particularly as two of the alarms
were false.
The loss and damage this year was much
smaller than heretofore. AS might be ex-
pected nearly all of yesterdays fires we're
started by the burning refuse OF fireworks
falling between buildings and into piles of
rubbish. With one exception, a fire in a
dry goods store on Stockton street, the
Fire Department was not called upon to
do very hard work.
AT an early hour yesterday morning an
alarm was sounded for fire in H. Somers'
barber-shop at Ala Montgomery avenue.
The fire was caused by some one carelessly
throwing lighted cigar-stump into pile
of paper The damage was $75.
Shortly before 10 o'clock A. NJ. an alarm
was sounded from box 217 for fire in Mrs.
D. SIessenger's dry-goods store at 1913
Devisadero street. Il was caused by a
small boy throwing a big trecracker
among the dry goods. The building. which
about S25, and the dry goods were damaged
about 500.
1t was not until o'clock that the alarms
began to come in, and for time the fire.
men were Kept busy. From that time on
the alarms were as follows:
6 P. NJ, box 2S4. 12S and 130 Twenty
ninth street, q two-story frame house
owned by Mrs. Anna Gabriel and occupied
as a dwelling by rs. Gabriel, William
| Toohy and James Reeder. The fire was
started by lot of refuse by the side of
the building being ignited by trecrackers.
Loss, $3.50.
$50 p NJ, box 1873. The fire was at s
| Eighth street. in building owned by
Thomas Malloy and occupied by ]. Bretto
as beltstore. Fireworks falling between
| the walls started the blaze, which resulted
| in q loss of about $3.50.
| sos p. NJ, box 362. Firecrackers started
a small blaze in the residence of John
! Cavanaugh, at S14 Fifteenth street, caus-
| ing damage to the amount of So.
| 1857 P. NJ, box 1872. False alarm turned
| in on account of pile of rubbish burning
in vacant lot.
P. NJ, box 295. A three-story frame
building at 1904 Stockton street, owned by
the Wiley estate. The fire broke out on
the ground floor, which was used as dry
1 anu fancy ROOuS SIOTe ny HeOIge WOOQ.
/ II is supposed that some malicious or care
less person hurled large firecracker
through one of the windows, which set
fire TO the stock. By the time the firemen
reached the place the premises were in q
blaze from the floor to the ceiling and it
| was necessary to turn ON full head OF
water, regardless of the stock.
For time it looked as though the fire
would cut its way into the upper part of the
building and work ont to the adjoining
| building, but after fifteen minutes sharp
| fighting the firemen conquered. Mr.. Wood
] lost his entire stock. and the total loss
and damage will reach $1,000 Mr. Wood
stated that his store had been closed since
noon, and big hole in one of the front
windows led to the belief that large fire.
cracker was the cause of the blaze.
AT 1910 P. NJ. box 254 was a false alarm
10:45 p. NJ, box 271, John Indech's dwell
ing at 3S6 Dolores street. Damage, $5;
cause, firecrackers.
1850 P NJ, box 2S6, false alarm.
1O:45 P NJ, box 62-Skyrockets falling
through the glass skylights of Mrs. Bunk
er's photograph parlors at S39 Mission
street, set fire to the upper story of the
building, which is three-story frame
structure.
By the time the blaze was extinguished
the building and contents were damaged
to about $500. Oscar Foss owns the build