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San Antonio Light clipping — fire at Morrison Coffee Co., 13 August 1913

Fire reporting at 214 South Comal on the Morrison Coffee Company plant — stock and building losses with surrounding briefs. Useful alongside Hoffmann-Hayman factory history as period evidence of how San Antonio’s coffee houses were covered when flames broke out.

FIRE DAMAGES TEA AND COFFEE PLANT Lighted Cigar Stump Thought to Have Been Cause—Another Blaze in Brackenridge Park.

A lighted cigar stump, thrown into a pressed paper cuspidor filled with sawdust, in the opinion of Fire Chief Wright, was responsible for a fire which broke out in the Morrison Coffee Company plant, 214 South Comal street, at an early hour this morning, destroying approximately $3000 worth of coffee, tea and spices and damaging the building about $300.

The fire, it is thought had been smoldering from 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon until it broke out in a flame at 1:20 o’clock this morning. Notwithstanding the fire had gained good headway before the alarm was sounded, firemen quickly checked the blaze. The stock on hand, equip- ment in the coffee storage house and machinery in the roaster room, valued at $10,000 were saved by the fast work of the firemen.

The building, a story and a half ironclad structure, owned by Pest & Trautwein, was valued at $1200 and was insured for $800. Insurance on the stock amounted to $8000.

“Fire which broke out in a small frame building occupied by the family of P. Vasquez, and situated in Brackenridge park, threatened the destruction of the pump house building nearby and all machinery at 6:55 o’clock this morning. The damage to the building and furniture is es- timated at about $200. Firemen checked the fire with a single line of hose, which was connected with a fire hydrant on River Avenue.

The overturning of a pot of tar used in the construction of a roof at 809 South Presa street, gave the de- partment a long run at 10 o’clock this morning. No damage was occasioned by the fire. While responding to the alarm, the breaking of a spring on motor car No. 3, South Alamo street, caused the fire apparatus to overturn while within a short distance of the fire. No one was injured.

An alarm sounded yesterday caused

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