Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 3

Crirjune OCTOBER 29, 1929 A. TPW7 TT A r7T TnrTT ss. ti jrrr tt. t- tt-itttt vt- 4 t-tv lNlLW DL.AZ.ll nU Milo UN IVlUKKlJlWUUU AKtLAr MEREEIjMESSrRED Here is a graphic portrayal of the havoc wrought by the fire that swept the East Oakland hills yesterday, endangering a score of fine dwellings and property worth more than $1,000,000, with a panoramic view of the Sequoyah Coun ry vacant real estate office of R. E.

Collins. The map shows the area burned over by the flames, which started approximately opposite Fifty-fifth avenue and burned over a five-rhile front to 1 07th avenue. The doited lines show the extent of twelve acres of the area swept by the flames, which burned on three sides of both the Seouovah Hills and Mtlsolm avenue residential districts. To the left (center) are MRS. S.

P. WAGNER and MRS. C. H. GOLUERsisters-in-law.

prf paring to flee from the latter's home as the flames drew near. At left tottbm are If F. E. McGURRIN. founder of the club, and MRS.

McGURRIN. who stayed club and pretentious residences that were surrounded by the flames. In the of re rk'vre is the chimney of the only building des! roved by the fire, the at their residence while the fire burned all around them, and saved their home from destruction AFIRE AGAIN TUESDAY EVENING nnnnii 11 run GOLF COURSE siaMB iwssssasasssssia i HMMe.BHHMMHMMHBB...aaMMHHlM.vvwMBaMMnMMHMMMMaM Flames Covering 12 Square Miles Nearly Burned Out, but Big Force of Firemen Held in Readiness Embers smoldering for 18 hours burst into flames again shortly after noon today in brush near the golf links road and threatened repetition of yesterday's East Oakland hill district blaze which swept over 12 hi square miles of brush and grass and threatened a score palatial residence in the Sequoyah jfcilJ'' fc- Vv -sjBOB? va(w Mil i ai i it i xijiW-i -j-iiMijiauJUJUJMtsUJMlMsl iY lTv----," 1 1 faa, hills. On a call from the Municipal Golf links three engine companies with 50 men were dispatched to the new fire und a "stand by" call Kent to all East Oakland engine bouses. WIND IS MENACE.

With a heavy wind fanning the flames, "Fire Chief Lutkey admitted the new blaze to a possible menace A short time before the new outbreak the department brought under control a blaze along Thorn road in the Merriewood district, which, for a time, threatened a score of small homes. One small building was destroyed. The conflagration was Ignited by a careless smoker who tossed a 1 HoVlVSfflM i IZ SQUARE MILEeT I PffffT. burning cigarette into tinder-like grass near Merriewood and Thorn roads, according to firemen. I I I 1 1 I I IT! II (i III I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Vi i ii i ill in i 1 1 1 1 TTni 1 1 I 1 1 I 4 II 3 1 1 1 Iff 1111 AiKj If if-fJ 5 1 i 1 1 Starting at 9:30 o'clock, the line of flame swept quickly toward the hills.

SHEDS BURNED DOWN Before help could be summoned, the chicken-sheds at the home of Mrs. Carl Schwelzer were razed to the ground. Flames came within six feet of the Schwelzer home and even beat against the windows before battlers finally established a fire-guard which turned the blaze in another direction. Fear for the safety of homes in the Aspenwall road and the Thorn-hill canyon district kept firemen battling until danger was considered at an end. ONE BULBING BURNS Vast reaches of black, smoldering acres, and one grimy chimney, marking the ruins of the one building destroyed out of the scores in the path of the flumes, today were all that remained of yesterday's fire menace, for seven hours It threatened to wipe out the Sequoyah Country club ami Its nearby residences and the thickly settled Hi! range UMbP" KMTiwif iT''iCoyNfliv 4 fi Vi' i I -a- 1 I Mill I lili' 'I I ft 1 1 1 I ST Ufl it I 1 I I -r sra i ijf I if i fft OTS OJ --O ay UUKAWl vY THICKLY -50 municipal Malcolm avenue residential the National Guard rifle range at Lcona.

and portions of East Oakland lying on the hillsides east of Mountain boulevard. During Us course the fire perllld residential property valued at more than $1,000,000, including many of the show places of the Eastbay hill section. The great conflagration was the largest of more than 45 fires that broke out In the East-hay during the day, all due to the tinder-dry condition of the roofs and the grass and brush and the high wind prevailing. If CNDItEDS FIGHT BLAZE. 4 Hundreds of firemen and clvll- fight the blaze in the East Oakland district declared the most menacing in the Eastbay sine the Berkeley disaster of six years ago.

Of the more than 700 trained flames, frantically called up her fire fighters who wera on duty WOMAN PLANS Scores of Eastbay Fires, Fanned by Wind, Set Mark HieH WINDS FfRE FIGHTER ADD FIDE PERU FALLS IN ILL were turned loose from the Loona stables by Lieutenant Harry Hollo-way when the flames threatened to destroy the entire military plant at the National Uuard establishment. All the hundreds of firemen today were singing the praises of women of the burned neighborhood who. electing their own leaders, mustered equipment and organized field kitchens from which coffee, LEGACY FIGHT along the fire's five-mile front throughout the day and most of the night, the last, returned at 4 a. m. thla morning.

Most of them were sent to their homes. But they were ordered to hold themselves ready for call. For with the rising eun the wind which drove yesterday's hill blaze through nearly 0.000 acres of brushland was freshening again. Authorities feared might be- a pew break of the flames. husband, who was In Reno, when it appeared that the home might be destroyed.

But a telephone operator somewhere along the line disconnected them before Mrs. Collier had told him what wan happening. IT'S A MYSTERY. "It's forcing me to leave the house!" was all Collier heard. 11a didn't know what was forcing his wife to flee until he put in an 9311 Olive etreet, grass and fence.

9318 Birch street, grass. Scores of fires, soma serious, others negligible, but all menacing In the uprevalllng high winds which at times reached a 50-mlle Blrdsall avenue and Redding Mrs. Pauline Carson Denies sandwiches and cooling drlnki? were velocity, flamed in Berkeley, Oak street, grass. 9310 Birch street, roof of shed Search for Water Lead Oakland Fireman to Disaster. Eastliay on Guard as 15 Acres in El Cerrito Are Burned Over.

land and Alameda yesterday and today to establish a record fire 3911 Thirty-ninth avenue, grass SOUGHT. dealt to the sweltering fire fighters. The first to start the work were Mrs. O. L.

Messenger and Mrs. E. She Rejected $lC000 to 'Keep Name other frantic call back to Oakland. perils for the three cities. An especially stout fight against They sprang up oln roofs and In P.

Jolly, who resided In the vicinity of the Leona National Guard the advance of the flames was grass and brush for the most part camp. Scores of others in different (Continued From Page 1.) Ail were due, fire officials said to dryness after weeks of hot parts of the fire front followed their example as the flames pro eiike of our baby Ralph, and for-? weather. OAKLAND. gressed. fire.

2067 Eightieth avenue, grass fire. ALAMEDA. Home of Mrs. M. I Bateman, 1571 Lincoln avenue, roof fire.

Bawd list blaze In vacant lot at north end of Wood street. Home of Mrs. T. A. Benton, 2136 San Jose avenue, grass fire which ignited fence.

Woodshed In rear of home of G. Lowes, 2301 Clement street, destroyed. Electric power wire on Clinton W. U. liOder, 1208 Tlilrty-clglith avenue, hoscmoii with fire truck 6, was ono of the firefighters frantically searching for water during yesterday's fire In the Enst Oakland hills.

Lodcr found It. He just linp-Tened to stumble on In It In the darkness of the early morning. waged at the home of A. T. Pottey, known as one of the leading dog fanciers on the Pacific coast.

Had the flames reached his dwelling more than a score of fine wlre-hajred fox and Irish wolfhounds have perlnhed. Neighbors assisted In making a wide backfire around the pound. Among homes saved by the efforts of tenants and firemen were State 'fire marshals and police werexpoklng through the blackened acres adjoining the equipment yard of the Reajty Syndicate, seeking 1 elues that might lead them to the fire fiend who is believed to have ignited the fire. Houghton Sawyer, deputy state fire warden, yesterday-pronounced the fire, incendiary without qualification. He pointed out that the blaze broke out in five places, at the same time a circumstance that would have impossible without human agency, he declared.

Hundreds of members of the FIVE MILES BI RXED. Starting from the Realty Syndi Aside from yesterday's fire in the Eufit Oakland hills, and a fire this morning in the Merriewood district. none of the Oakland fires caused cate yard, located at about the projection of Fifty-fifth avenue on Redwood road, the fire burned more than five miles to a point Embers of a half dozen fires, which leaped out of dry grass and brush yesterday and, fanned by the high swept on to berome potential threats against life and property, were being guarded today In the bay region to prevent new outbreaks. In El Cerrito, two fires swept over 15 acres of brush and grass In the Arlington Estates subdivision south of the Berkeley Country club. The flames were brought under control by volunteer fighters from El Cerrito and Kensington, led by Fire Chief Arthur Byrd of El Cerrito.

Described by fighters as the worst fire in San Mateo county In the salie of the- old mah," Who know died with his' deepest wtsli unfulfilled It we were left out ln; the division of his property, we'' may see what can be done to have his wishes carried out If provision is not made for us, I know that ha died with a grievance in hla t-When Mrs. Bessie- Nnyea- filed a counter-complaint to her bus band's divorce suit in 192fl sho-. alleged an uiKlriV fondness' be- tween Noye's and the wife of approximately on a line with the avenue near Willow street short circuited by limp of a tree. those of Walter Lillie, Dr. F.

Robinson, Dr. C. F. Jarvla. C.

E. Maxwell. Neil Harris, F. E. MrGur-rin, H.

B. Post, Tom Lloyd, H. C. Broderlck, R. A.

Bow'en and W. H. BERKELEY. Seventeen fires were recorded In ftonuovfth Pnnnlrv rlnh and scores of dwellers along the Kast Oakland Berkeley. But together they caused Is sthan $1000 damage.

Oak Knolls Country club and the Oakland municipal golf links. It came to halt approximately at 107th avenue. The flames split to burn on three aides of the Sequoyah club. One arm of the blazing area ran through a canyon half a mile down through the Durant estate. The hills, are marveling that their serious alarm or damage.

Here are the Oakland blazes extinguished by city firemen: Thorn road, Merriewood, grass fire. Nineteenth and Harrison streets, grass fire. 419 East Fourteenth atreet, chimney fire. 462 Twelfth etreet, kitchen In rear of second story. Eleventh and Franklin streets.

Hotel Vernon. 912 East Eighteenth street, roof fire. 1449 Miller road, grass fire. bparks from. the chimney set fire Two neighborhood boys were assisting him in his soiircli thrnagh the Durant cstntc.

One moment they saw him. The next they didn't. But they heard him. "Help! Help!" he wns yelling. Thcy ran In circles, but found no traqo of the fireman.

So they summoned other truckmen. Kellou -firemen also heard the cries, but could find no trace of lodcr. They brought lanterns. And In the light they found the yawning mouth of an abandoned well. Lodcr was at the bottom.

Today lie Is excused from duty while he recovers from bruises received when ho fell fifteen feet to the bottom of the pit. "He was fond of mvself nif to the home pf A. Wuber, 1518 Walnut street, yesterday afternoon. husband because wo wero'good ty r' him when others failed," Mrs, Car- properties escaped destruction by the flames. The only building destroyed was the real estate tract office of R.

E. Collins, near Se Wyckoff. Storie of herols-m flocked Into fire headquarters this morning with the return of the fire fighters. IJentenant Enrico Maffcl recorded that his life was saved by Hoseman Francis Duffy, Engine 23, who carried the fire of Damage was confined to $600 to ten years, a blaze was reported rag the roof and 160 to contents. ing uncontrolled on Kings moun main body of the fire continued eastward.

A freak of chance, and a favor quoyah Country club. HOMES SAVED. E. E. Beedy, 2601 Webster street.

tain early this morning. A force of more than 200 men were battling kThe many fine homes near the able wind, saved Sequoia park from called upon thef Ire department for aid In repairing a stove pipe disconnected, by the high wind. efub. all of which were surrounded by the fire for more than two hours, were paved because persons living fn them saw (be damage, although the flames came within afew hundred yards of the public playground. ficer from the flaming area after he had fallen, overcome by smoke.

TWO OTHERS SAVED. A similar rescue saved the lives of two unidentified employees of the etreet department who were the flames to prevent their Jumping the Louarn road, midway between San Mateo and Half Moon Bay. 'The flames threaten a group of summer homes at the base of Klncs mountain and Redwood Park. Two fires which started yesterday In the Pine Flat district fiames coming from. a long 'distance, and worked desperately with garden hose, and wet blankets to establleh water-aoaked safety areas 851 Longridge road, smoke scare.

Buell and Calaveras, hill fire. 870 Lydia street, electric light socket. 1185 Nineteenth street, chimney fire. 3909 Grand avemie, chimney fire. 979 Tenth street, chimney fire.

Sycamore etreet and San Pablo A "freak" fire in a sawdust box at OrtlanJ Bros, meat market. 1577 Solano avenue, was exterminated without loss. A lighted cigarette Is believed to have caused the blaze. Five dollars damage was done to a roof at 2805 Stuart street last evening, sparks from a chimney causing the blaze. among tne tow street womers son expiameq simply.

"My husband Is Just recovering from an operation for appendicitis formed October in Letterman hospital, to which he Was admitted because he Is a war veteran. That fact In Itself shows that we are not gold diggers that' we were no drain on Noyes' financially. were never after his money: ia fact. I told him when he said ha would provide for us that I would never engage in a fight against his children for his property. "But lie cared for us as If we ewer his own hildren.

If other members of the family, who 1 already have far more than me, wLh to deprive of what my husbands atep-fathep Intended ns to have, we are stlTI rich In the memory that we gave him some warmth of affection anl happiness In his Inst years, if wo decide to fight. It will be fur the sake of carrying out bis wishes and In order to pro for our baby." Arch Robertson. Many fruit packing plants were reported menaced. Dumage estimated at wa caused by a fire which swept the Senator quicksilver mine 12 miles south of an Jose, according to reports. In Napa county brush fires between Samuel Springs and.

Walter Springs above Hope Valley were checked after sweeping several thousand acres along a two-mile front. The Patterson ranch is one of the principal game sanctunries of drafted for fire tignting. rney collapsed from exhaustion and the effects of the hot fumes while fighting the fire. They were carried to a place of avenue, grass fire. Kin Sought for Slaying of Pair ARKANSAS CITY, Oct.

2D. Interest in the slaying of Carl Jones and stepdaughter, Elizabeth Walworth, Saturday night at Jones' farm four miles northwest of here, centered today In the search for Harry Jones, of Mc-Camey, Texas, brother of the slain man. John Phelan Jones, father of the 473 Ellta street, roof fire. K20 Poplar street, roof fire. 1 and Thirty-fourth safety by Hoseman M.

McGue, also of Engine 21. between Hcaldshurg and cyer-ville joined forces early this morning and swept over a ridge Into, the Alexander alley, destroying a residence and nil the farm buildings on the Walker Mcl'hcrson ranch and menacing houses on several other ranches. Rasing along an eight-mile front. streets, false alarm. James O'Cdnnell, hoseman of the same detachment.

painfully 2322 Adeline street, roof fire. Eighty-sixth avenue and central California, and thousand street, grass fire. around their properties. Sequoyah hills residents not at home at the time were called and warned of he danger, by. Miss Elinor Clark, telephone operator at the Fequoyah club, who remalnded at her post while the flames literally licked around the windows of ner telephone room.

The fire came within ten feet of the clubhouse but did not Ignite it. Nearly all householders Who were at home, or caretakers living irt the residences, fled with what valuables they could carry. Mrs. M. R.

Hilton, residing in the home of T. H. I.loyd. carried out a large I-iindle of silver and valuable art cl-iects tied up in a blanket The episode was not without Its bjror. Mrs.

C. H. Collier, alone i.iier home in the path of the Aged Veteran Injured When Blinded by Storrn MANTRCA, Oct. 29. W.

H. "Dad" Ra nes, Manteca's veteran of two wara and grower of prize-winning melons and poultry, was treated for scalp wounds. The accident occurred during the heavy windstorm. He had delivered a load of tomatoes to the local cannery Leaving his team at the plant, he started to walk across the burned when he dashed through a wall of fire to save his life after he found himself surrounded by flames while working with a hand i of quail and pheasants are being 3031 Adeline street, roof fire. 5130 Wet etreet, woodshed fire.

M3 Fifty-second street, chimney dead man. Neil Jonps. his brother, and Clarence Walworth, brother of the rlnln girl, are being held for the flames have already burned over more than 5000 acres of valuable pasturage. Holdings endangered include the fire. extinguisher a Ions the western flank of the fire near I.eona rifle range.

McDonald Bros, ranch, Warner! Martin boulevard and Thorn Investigation. Ill feeling orer the settlement of an estate belonging to the mother of Carl Jonee. whereby Carl was BOV Kll.l.S SO-LB. t. road, fcrass fire.

rnlsed there under the supervision of the fish and game commission. Fire fiehters were making, desperate efforts to save the birds from destruction. Louis Jtuschln, chief of the Newark fire department, abandoned attempts firing when the gale beeanie so strong that success of this type of 1 fire fighting appeared doubtful nORSES ROVXDE1J II'. Horsemen todav were In the year-old t. 3322 Chestnut street, roof fire.

3 Fifty-second aireet, sparks plven her entire property, is be. ranch, Briirgs Bros, ranch, and Jack In-els ran h. A force of 100 men," recruited In llealdsburg and Geyservllle, was bsttlinjr the fir under the leadership of Fir Ranger Ernest P.upe and Fire Warden nil 15 rounaing up tne firty-rive neaa jieved to have played a part in the a f. imm io iowh wnen a I )aeced h' r-f of. gust Pf Wind filled his eyes with I rrmis'-t in sand, causing him to trip and f-it we-c r' 1 his head striking the steel rails, M-mtS on roor.

625 Fifty-eighth street, roof fire. 5125 Grove street, paint shop, 01 norses. property 01 a murder. The men heiJ all have Guard cavalrj regiment, which given alibis..