SAMUEL BUMMSamuel Bumm - March 11, 1854 (#3)
Columbian Engine Co. No. 11 - 412 Bush Street
Run Over By Apparatus

TERRABLE ACCIDENT – A FIREMAN KILLED.

1854 March 12
During the alarm of fire yesterday morning, a boy named Samuel Bumm, aged sixteen years, was killed under the following circumstances —He was running down Bush street, with Columbia Engine No. 11, having hold of the rope. As they were turning the corner at Montgomery street, a large dog was crossing, who ran against the boy and tripped him. The wheels of the engine passed over his head and neck, crushing his skull terribly and killing him immediately. He was taken up and carried into Dr. Sawyer's office, but was dead. He was from Philadelphia, and his parents reside in this city. Bumm was a volunteer in Co. No. 11, and we learn that the company will attend his funeral, which will take place this afternoon, at three o'clock, from the residence of his uncle, John Addis Esq., on Broadway, below Stockton street. The friends of the deceased are invited to attend the funeral without further notice.

The following resolutions, expressive of the sense of tile members of the Company of which he was a member. was adopted at a full meeting last evening —

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.

At a meeting of Columbia Fire Co No 11, held at the Engine House, on Saturday evening, the linst., the following preamble and resolutions were adopted :

Whereas, By a dispensation of an all-wise Providence, it becomes our painful duty to record the untimely death., o! Samuel Bumm, a young friend of the Company, a youth scarce eighteen years of age, son of  George S. Bumm. Esq., of this city, who, in proceeding with the engine at the alarm of fire on Saturday, the 11th inst., accidentally fell at the comer of Bush and Montgomery streets, and ail human efforts unavailing, was killed by the engine passing over him.

Therefore Resolved, That it is with feelings of sorrow we are thus compelled to give publicity to emotions that chill the very blood, that stifles all expression — a youth beloved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, cherished by kind parents and respected by all who knew him, thus to be taken without a ray of warning from the platform of time, ushered into the presence of Him who is to judge our every action, should tend to bring us to feel and to know the uncertainty of life and bow with submissive grace to the will of Providence

Resolved That we deeply sympathise with the relatives and friends of the deceased in their affliction , a son;, a brother, a friend, thus cut off in the spring time of life, with all the rosy hues of health upon his youthful brow ; verily, in the midst of life we are in death.

Resolved, That we, the members of Columbian Co. No. 11, assemble at the Engine House on Sunday, the 12th inst , at 2 ½ o'clock, in citizens dress, and from thence proceed to attend the funeral of deceased from his late residence Broadway, near Stockton street, at which place we would respectfully invite the Department generally to join us in the plain garb of the citizen.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be published in the Alta Californian and Herald.

J. D. BHOWEH, Chairman
JOHN H. SHEPPARD, Secretary.

Source: Daily Alta California, Volume 5, Number 70, 12 March 1854 — TERRABLE ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.