WILLIAM A. CAREWWilliam A. Carew, Captain - September 9, 1914 (#59)

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Born in Australia - 1849
Appointed: Age 24 - May 17, 1871

Assigned: Hose Co. No 5 - 1871
Assigned: Hook and Ladder No. 3 - 1875

Appointed Foreman: Hose Co. No. 1 - 1894, Truck No. 7 - 1895
Appointed Captain: Truck No. 7 - 1900
Appointed Drillmaster: 1911
Reassigned to Captain Truck Co. No. 7
Died at fire September 9, 1914

FIREMEN SAVE FOURTEEN LIVES

1914 September 9

Life nets, for the first time in many years, saved four persons from death by fire yesterday morning when the Rose Hotel, Fourth and Clementina streets, burned.

Ten other persons were saved by firemen who climbed fire escape.

These  two persons were injured;

Mrs. W. Girrard,  proprietor of the hotel, who was cut about the face and hands.

James F. Cotter, a guest, who was overcome with smoke in his room on the fourth floor.

A terrific explosion, supposed to have it originated in a gas meter under the stairway, started the fire.

Five minutes after the explosion the four-story frame building was a mass of flames.

Men and women were clinging to fire escapes and hanging to window ledges when fireman dashed up. The Fire nets were spread. Two men and two women had let go their holds and dropped into the nets. None of them was injured, except Mrs. Girrard.

Seven men and two women were taking off fire escapes, Flora Polk was found unconscious in a room upstairs by fireman and was carried out.

Cotter has been trapped in his room. He broke the window sash the chair and started to climb through, but he was overcome. He fainted. The fireman climbed up with the scaling ladder and carried him to safety.

The loss is estimated at $4000.
Source:  San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 09 September 1914, Wednesday, Page 5.

DEATHS

CAREW – in Fruitvale, Cal., September 9. William A., dearly beloved husband Sarah Carew and loving father of William A. Jr., La Vancia and La Lorie Carew and Mrs. Howard C. Lieb, a native of Australia. A member of the Mutual Aid Association, and Widows and Orphans Association of the S. F. F. D. and the Veterans Firemen’s Association of San Francisco.

Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral tomorrow Saturday at 9:30 o’clock a.m., in the residence of his daughter, 3234 Logan Street; thence to St. Elizabeth’s Church, Fruitvale, where a requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul, commencing at 10 o’clock a.m. Interment Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Hayward. Cal.
Source: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 11 September 1914, Friday, Page 4.

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.

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