The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-29
TWO BLOCKS burn;
SEVERAL ARE HURT
Firemen Fall Through Roof, but
Escape Death Between
Walls OF Fire
Wind Drives Flames Across
Streets and Loss Is ESTE
mated at 100000

OAKLAND. April 2S.-Nearly two
BLOCKS Of frame buildings. between
Third. Fourth. Franklin and Harrison
streets. were destroyed by a fire which
began az lI:I5 o'clock at the corner Of
Third and Webster streets and burned
north. west and east
sThe brick backs OF Franklin street
Buildings. with an open court. made it
possible fer the dremen to check the
flames half block from Franklin on
.fhe west but to The north and east the
fire spread from shack TO building until
Iii Lad wiped ont the block between
webster and Harrison streets. The loss
. is. - bout 100000.
- ~ -5fgh wind drove Tie blaze into the
-f5l.l, den. structures as into finder, and If
/ die, Harrison school at Fourth and Har-
rEs.Tl.-str@ets not been p solid brick edi-
If. IT. would have gone, too Its out
= bGilcLIes We're ruined. and the classes
were: q isilissed when the heat from the
- 1oaching fire grew intense in the
schoQ lgoom-- The children We're
pl8t6hed out in fire drill regularity and
= e$eaFeu injury.
FlREMEN IMPRISONED
. several persons We're slightly injured
A-At az 4f'eAl GU ana LALA tt i4A GAAlEil
as sE gine company TO narrowly es
CapeQ' death lin burning cottage in
L.dartl. street just west Of the school
'lullu NJ. In order TO save the school
~fh6E climbed 10 the top Of d cottage
-ly4tb<a hose line
; -. The. roof fe3l in and imprisoned them
-H5fhin four burning walls and tangled
lrr-bro gen wire, which had to be cut be-
-fere they could be taken out They
5'zere William Reuter-, steward of the
.tllT5T 1duy. and Tenny Sturms and Will
liam sJoyce. extra men.
fNJCRED TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
None of the injured persons was in
serious COpdftion when AIKEN to the re-
. cajEihg hospital for treatment. They
Weres
= SAM .KEE. a Chinese merchant. face burned
sid sight possibly impaired while he was trying
TO save property from his home, 500 Third
4. DRuAR, right. eye cut by being struck BY
q bose Iozz3e az Fifth and Franklin streets.
=. e. -BELGLUND, SIC Harrison street, extra
lreIna:l -eIt lsLo crashed while unloading hose.
F.. G.. E MARTIN, 7i5 Webster street, face
burned IN trying TO remove furniture from his
: @EDWARD OWEN, carpenter, II75 Alabama
streetc San Francisco, left ankle crushed slightly
by falling telegraph pole.
- J. FERNANDEZ, fireman. 1926 Thirty-fourth
street nall run IN his left hand.
JOSEPH ROGERS, labo1er, San Leandro foot
crushed by falling timber.
= 'Fhe fire broke out in the rear of
the SUNSET lodging house, at Third and
TNebster streets. which was occupied
p by: employees Of the Sunset lumber
company District Attorney W. IL
l5onalUe owned the property and also
the adjacent buildings in Webster
street north TO Fourth, all of which
were destroyed. His loss is about
$4,000 covered by insurance.
FfRENEN CONTROL FLAMES
" In. the block where the fire began.
west Of. Webster street, just half the
structures were raZed; in the block be-
tween Webster and Harrison streets.
@only the brick Harrison school stands.
- buildings across the streets We're
slightly burned, but by heroic work
Chief Bah and his men kept the flames
from sweeping eastward into the Chi
nese section
b: All the property owned by the dis
-trlct attorney in the Webster street
block was destroyed. South, at Third
and Webster streets, James Feeley's
saloon was Quilted and the Model ma
chine works, at 355 Fourth street
owned by A. +. Peterson, was burned
TO the ground. The Donahue bottling
works went next, and several small
cottages in that block, in the west side
OF Webster street, were left a heap of
smoldering ashes.
MANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED
In Webster street the DESTROYED
buildings. were a small planning mill
and cigar factory, and owned by A. J..
Galbraith Of San Francisco; Mrs E
Low, East Oakland; Mrs Elizabeth
Crab. mifliner, living at the Hotel
St. Mark, and by the Western Pacific
railroad.
J.. Cottages in Third street between
Webster and Harrison. which We're de-
stroyed, belonged to 4. Blumenbere.
800 Third street; G. Rogers. 316 Third
street; T. Montgomery, 3161k Third
street; J. J. Merritt, 31SI5 Third street.
and J. Jackson, BIS Third street. A
cottage and factory at $50 and 36Olb