The San Francisco call., 1904-04-11
FIRE RACES
IN OAKLAND
Three-Quarters of a Square
Block of Buildings in
Heart of City Is Burned
RoCKERIES DESTROYED
Aged Man Is Injured by
Jumping From Second
Story of Lodging House
Oakland once SAN Francisco Cali.


ll1S Broadway, April 10.
Three quarters Of a square block Of
buildings. $4,000 loss and one man
injured seriously and another painful
~ is the record Of a fire that started
near the corner of Ninth and Frank
Jim streets this evening and swept
through a mass Of Chinese opium
Joints, cheap lodging houses and
stables. While the FIRE was in lot
OF old roOkeries il was still in the heart
of town and the very fact that the
buildings were old and fimsy made II
dangerous FOR better structures that
surrounded them.
The fire was discovered shortly af-
ter 10 o'clock in the rear OF stable
operated by A. s. Hanks on Franklin
street. midway between Eighth and
Ninth streets. The fire is believed TO
have originated from spark that was
dropped on the fiimsy old stable from
the plumbing shop OF Barker & Kin
hey. just across Ninth street BY the
time ii was discovered the rear of the
Model lodging house on the corner of
Ninth and Franklin streets had caught
fire and when the engines arrived the
corner was in a fierce blaze The
buildings were so fimsy that the IRE
spread with great rapidity and il was
only by the greatest efforts that the
Webster street frontage and a portion
of the Eighth street frontage was
saved.
BRISK COMPARTMENTS.
When the fire got into one of the
Chinese stores on Ninth street it
reached 10000. 600 firecrackers that
were being saved for the next Chinese
New Year, and for several minutes
there was a bombardment of frecrack-
ers and bombs that made a lively ac-
compartment to the fire.
The carriage mandatory Of SOhst
Brothers. on the corner Of Eighth and
Franklin streets, was saved after
fight Most of the stock was saved and
The building was but little damaged.
Tom Nagee's expensive automobile was
IN the shop. but ii was not seriously
injured. The Sohst shop was saved
10y the new Monitor that was put at
work for the first time.
Nearly all of the places burned were
noted and notorious. The Model lOdg-
ing-hOuse on the corner was built by
DR.. Ambrose Saunders. The building
was constructed in violation Of the fire
Ordiances and in the building Dr.
Saunders was arrested several times.
He has since sold the property TO 7.
DOnohue.
Just behind the Model lodging
house were several small shops
and then came Chin FOOk' s
Chinese meat shop, the proprie-
tor being one of the wealthy
residents Of Chinatown. Then came
the famous old opium joint that was
recently raided by Sergeant Clark
These places We're entirely destroyed.
The Chinese Mission on Franklin
street, next to SOhst's shop, was de-
sJroyed. II was owned by s. Keane.
The Webster-street frontage was not
injured
HORSES ARE SAVED.
The twO-story house on Eighth street
owned and occupied by w. AVIAN was
entirely destroyed. The rest Of the
property TO the corner Of Webster
street was formerly owned by c. J.
WetmOre and escaped with but little
damage The stable Of Fred Becker
on Eighth street. owned by AVIAN, was
destroyed. but all of the horses and
rigs We're saved.
". J. Heyn and Deputy County Clerk
Charles Pugh arrived on the scene ia
time 10 save sixteen horses and most
Of the rigs from Hanks stable on
Franklin street i. +. Laymanee was
early on the scene and did good work
in saving property.
The only men injured We're Fred
Jeffries. sixty years Of age, who jump
ed from the second story Of the lOdg-
ing house. and +. VI. French. who hurt
his hand in saving property.