Oakland, California Fire
May
6, 1923
WIFE RESCUES BLIND MAN AS BUILDINGS BURN
Two Firemen Injured; Flats and Stores Destroyed;
Loss $50,000.
Three flats, a coal, wood and feed yard, and
three stores were destroyed, two stores and
three flats were badly damaged and two firemen
were overcome in a general alarm fire which
broke out at Telegraph avenue and Thirty-fourth
street yesterday morning. and caused damage
estimated at more than $50,000.
A blind man, proprietor of one of the stores,
was trapped in the fire and was rescued by his
wife, who led him through smoke-filled rooms to
safety.
Practically half a block of frame buildings were
wiped out by the blaze.
So many engines were used to pump water that the
pressure was reduced, necessitating the running
of hose lines five or six blocks to unaffected
plugs.
FIREMEN ARE INJURED.
Fireman F. J. CROWLEY,
Engine Co. 21, and Hoseman
JOHN D. TERRANCE,
Truck Co. No. 5, received burns and were
overcome by smoke fumes. They were given first
aid treatment by
CLARENCE JOHNSON, a druggist at
Thirty-fouth street and Telegraph avenue.
TERRENCE was later removed to the Emergency
Hospital.
The fire started in the woodyard of
EDWIN T. CORIE, 3409 Telegraph
avenue, and spread to the STRAND hardware store,
3401 Telegraph avenue. Defying the efforts of
firemen to hold it in check, the flames ate
their way through this wooden structure, and
began burning in both directions on Telegraph
avenue.
From the hardware store, it spread to the
following establishments:
Shoe shop of JOE NAGI,
3413 Telegraph avenue.
Grocery store of A. W.
Manskey, 3419 Telegraph avenue.
______'s Home Bakery, 3421 Telegraph avenue.
HARRY HALLIN's tailor shop, 3421
Telegraph avenue.
G. HOLDERS, proprietor of the
hardware store, is blind. He was trapped in the
building and led to safety with difficulty by
his wife. They lost everything.
MANSKEY had no insurance on his
store. He attempted to enter the burning
structure in an effort to save some of the
stock, but was prevented by Police Corporals
WILLIAM HALIMAN and EARL SCHWITZER.
Fireman CROWLEY, who was burned and overcome by
smoke, is the man who at the recent Hawthorne
school fire was struck while on a ladder by a
burning section of falling roof, and caught the
timber and kept it from falling on his mates
below him.
Two families living above the grocery store were
burned out.
Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA 7 May 1923
Transcribed by Linda
Houston. Thanks, Linda!
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