The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08

ing and a steaInpipe leads directly into
the shavings-room. Engineer Murray
i'm diately turned the steam into the
shavings-room, intending to smother the
blaze, but the flames spread rapioly
through the lnhamm bic contents or Inc
room and were communicated to the rest
of the building. The efforts OF Foreman
c. NJ. Johnson ana The employees OF the
mill to quench the flames with The hand
hoses were equally futile.
Engin- and chemical 6 we're the first
TO arrive a the fire. The men who lost
two of heir comrades on the day before
were nevertheless, the promptest to, re-
spond to another call less than twenty
four hours after they had taken from the
Folsom-street ruins the bodies OF their
dead engineer and his heroic companions
who died while trying 10 rescue him.
Chief Sullivan and Assistant Engineer
Shaughnessy were on hand even before
the lines were stretched. Not wishing
to run any risks of having the flames
spread to the ao joining lum oer piles and
planlng-mills, tie Chief caused second
and third alarm TO be rung in.
While the treuen were trying to fight
the flames back on the ground floor the
fire quickly spread along the floor above,
and soon the whole structure was in a
blaze. From the mill the flames spread
TO the box department, which has 'front.'
age on Fifth street. A score of streams
were poured into the burning buildings,
but for some time the water seemed to
have little effect upon the infiam unable
matter within. Immense clouds of smoke
were carried by the stiff breeze, which had
again shifted back to ITS original quarter.
The fire boats, Governor Irwin and Gov
ernor Markham, had meanwhile taken
their stations just IL back of the burning
mill, and soon half a dozen streams of
muddy water from the channel were being
a TpofC haH 40, = off OF
The tug Alert had started for the fire,
but on account of its heavy dTaughU and
the low tide, 1t got stuck in the mud chan
mel and hal to remain inactive several
hundred yards away from the fire. 1t was
only by putting on all steam that the
Markham, which Is OF lighter draught,
mana-ed to ack the scene OF the confa-
grafton.
On the roof of the Southern Pacific
freightsheds, men with hoselines had
been stationed to put ont any fire started
bv the flying sparks. The EN- ployes Of c.
M Depew's mill, which adjoins the
Truckee, were likewise kept busy extin-
gushing lncipjent hlazes. The department
direc ed much OF its effort to checking the
spread OF the flames in this direction, for
had the fire ever got a start in he inha M
ma ble material III D pew's mill confla-
grafton would doubtless have resulted
EN- cling all the buildings and yards
liz
Employees Of the Truckee Mill had made
their way into the countinG-room. where
they gat cred all portable objects desks,
books and things, and carried them for
safety under the railroad sheds on the
north side Of Berry street.
. O. c. Hazlett. one of the proprle tors of
the TrUckee Lumber Company, has been
suffering for some time from a broken
foot, and yesterday morning he called al
the office Tor the first time in a week. He
saw that all was well and returned to his
home until he was notified q 80 o'clock
by tele phone that his place of business
was afire. He took a drive to the scene,
and, with his crutches by his side, sat the
balance OF the afternoon in comfortable
armchair watching his property go up in
smoke.
His employees, mole frightened and ex-
cited than he was, reported to him every
little while as TO wha: progress was being
made
Il value the sheds at about $5OOO"
stated Mr.. Hazlett, as he sat and
watched II 20 up in smoke. The ma
.chinery, l think, cost about SIS 900, and
there was about 1000 worth OF lum ber
all told.
Il carried about $4,000 worth of insur-
anee, divided among many companies.
There was $4,000 on the machinery and
$40, 500 on the properly and STOCK"
This is the first time tae company has
been burned out in the course of the score
Of years of its existence. Tie company
d is one of the largest box-manufac; uring
concerns in the State, and gives steady
employ Yment to a large mum Der of men.
Ihls Is the busiest season of The year for
the company, as it fills hundreds of
orders for fr1t- boxes for all parts of the
State. Three thousand fruit boxes were
Tied up all ready to be shipped to San
. Jose to-day. and 10000 candle boxes were
waiting TO be shipped to Guatemala. In
addition 10 this there was an immense
stock of spruce lum Der TO be used in the
manufacture of boxes for the iruit-ship-
ping season.