AN INCIDENT OF THE FRISCO FIRE.
One iof the remarkable incidents of the great fir© of San .Francisco was the. immunity from damage of an old wooden shack owned by the American Marine Paint Company, at the corner of Main and Harrison Streets. The ramshackle, half-a-century-old building stands unharmed, a little island in a sea of desolation. It reeks with oil and is filled with highly inflammable materials. Quite near to it a great pile of coal caught fire and burned for nearly a week. The officials of the company felt so certain that the place had fallen a victim to the devouring flames that they did not even attempt to visit it until two weeks or so after the conflagration, and then it was mere curiosity to see what the ruins looked like that led them there. Their astonishment when they saw their oil-soaked wooden store standing unharmed amid the ruins of "fireproof" buildings can easily b3 imagined. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 6
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159AN INCIDENT OF THE FRISCO FIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 6
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