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Eugene’s fire companies used hand-pulled carts, so response time could not have been swift. But most people must have managed to escape from burning buildings, because the local papers contained | Eugene’s fire companies used hand-pulled carts, so response time could not have been swift. But most people must have managed to escape from burning buildings, because the local papers contained | ||
few notices of deaths from burns. In one instance, a teenager from the coast mountains, who | few notices of deaths from burns. In one instance, a teenager from the coast mountains, who | ||
- | with her mother had come to Eugene to '''[[ | + | with her mother had come to Eugene to '''[[pick hops]]''', died of severe burns sustained from a fire at Brown’s hop yard. And William Renshaw, age 63, in impaired health and subject to epilepsy, died from burns on Christmas Day 1886. “It is supposed he rose Christmas morning and built his fire as usual,” said the newspaper, “and was taken with one of his spells, falling into the fire.” |
A serious, but fortunately non-fatal, scalding accident occurred at Eugene’s brewery in [[1875]], when employee Herman Berg fell from a walkway into a boiling kettle of beer. “His feet are scalded very bad, having a large pair of boots on at the time which filled with the boiling beer, nearly cooking them before they could be taken off,” the Oregon StateJournal reported. “Berg is attended by Dr. Sharples and is pronounced to be in a fair way to recover.” | A serious, but fortunately non-fatal, scalding accident occurred at Eugene’s brewery in [[1875]], when employee Herman Berg fell from a walkway into a boiling kettle of beer. “His feet are scalded very bad, having a large pair of boots on at the time which filled with the boiling beer, nearly cooking them before they could be taken off,” the Oregon StateJournal reported. “Berg is attended by Dr. Sharples and is pronounced to be in a fair way to recover.” |