Furniture Plant Burns at Los Angeles

Furniture Plant Burns at Los Angeles

GENERAL NEWS FEATURES

The second large fire in two days at Los Angeles, Cal., occurred 10.25 p. m., November 7, when the Manhattan Furniture Company store at 759 and 761 San Fernando street was entirely destroyed, with a loss of $10,000 on building and $40,000 on contents. The fire started in the one-story frame building in New High street, used as a planing mill. The three-story brick structure runs back from San Fernando street to New High street, abutting in one place on the planing mill and being connected with it by passageway, guarded by iron doors. The doors fell before the flames which enveloped the plaining mill shortly after the fire started, and the fire soon was licking at the great piles of furniture in the brick warehouse. The stock of furniture was especially large, the Manhattan Company having been preparing for the coming of the Christmas season. Three alarms were turned in, but the firemen found the water pressure so low that they were unable to do anything more than confine the blaze to the attacked structures; suppression in the burning buildings was impossible, with the result that all that is left of the furniture warehouse and planing mill arc the four walls of the brick structure. There were 13 engines, four ladders, three hose and a water tower company in service, using 12.350 feet of hose and 169 feet of ladder.