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Christine Freeman Directory - Volume 1 (A-I) (332 pages)
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Fire of July 19, 1856, continued:
George A. Young, and his brother-in-law, William F. Anderson, in
making their escape from the brick building of the former, down Broad
Street, had their faces and hands shockingly burned from the heat of the
buildings which were on fire on both sides of the street. They are both
rapidly recovering from the effects of their burns.
CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL Volume 1 #5 August 5, 1856:
Only six brick buildings were saved:
Bicknell's Block on Broad Street occupied by Moses Teal & Co. &
A. Alexander.
W. G. Alban's, corner of Broad and Pine Streets occupied by
J. E. Hamlin.
Landecker, on Commercial Street, a grocery store.
Crittenden, on Main Street, a crockery store.
Meyers, at the corner of Main and Commercial Street, successor to
Espenchied, a shoe store.
Dickerman, a small brick near the Court House.
NI July 19, 1873 p2cl: The Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1856.
Seventeen years ago today, on Saturday, July 19, 1856, at about 3
o'clock in the afternoon, a fire broke out in a blacksmith shop, on Pine
Street, a short distance below Preston's drug store, which resulted in the
most disastrous conflagration ever witnessed in Nevada county. The buildings
were built mostly of wood and a strong wind blowing at the time, the flames
soon spread in every direction, setting fire to the wooden buildings, which
were very dry and ignited almost instantly. In a few minutes the whole city
was in flames. Nevada at that time was in the height of her prosperity. ‘he
merchants had laid in large stocks of goods; a number of brick buildings,
supposed to be fire-proof had been erected, but they nearly all were
destroyed, only four out of the twenty-two withstanding the firey element.
More than four hundred buildings were burned, including all the churches,
hotels and Court House, involving a total loss of more than one million of
dollars. Water for fire purposes, being in those days very limited, no
attempt was made to stop the progress of the flames until they had spent
their fury. The district laid in ashes extended up Broad Street as far as
the residence now owned by M. S. Deal, on one side, and Simon Rosenthal on
the other. Its limits on upper Main street were on a line with the public
school house, while its southern boundry was Spring street, the north side
of which was destroyed. The flames crossed Deer creek and consumed a number
of buildings on the plaza. On the north the fire burned some buildings
across Kelsey's ravine, and up Aristocracy hill as far as Water street.
(present Gove Street).
Ten persons perished in the flames, some of them acting upon the
belief that the brick buildings would withstand fire, while others, who
had remained a few minutes to fasten the iron shutters, and see that
everything in the buildings where they had offices, was secure, came out,
only to find themselves surrounded by a sea of fire, with barely a chance of
escape from certain death, so turning back into the buildings, they lost
their lives. Peter Hendrickson perished in his store, now occupied by
Fininger, on Broad Street. Jay Johnson, a surveyor, A. J. Hagan, a banker,
S. W. Fletcher, ex-District Attorney, and W. B. Pearson of the DEMOCRAT
office, lost their lives in the brick building that stood on the site of
Aschheim Bros., clothing store, and John Yates, of the firm of Tallman &
Yates, of the firm of Tallman & Yates, perished in one of the buildings on
the north side of lower Commercial Street. A man named Thomas, and another
named William Wilson were so badly burned that they died the next day, and
the remains of two unknown persons were found, one in Kelsey's brick
building on Commercial Street, now owned by Brown & Deal, and the other
among the ruins of a wooden building on Broad Street.
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