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one volume of intense flame. Mrs. Beaton was carried to Rev. Kimball's 

 temporary residence and has had to have night and day watchers continu- 

 ally. At last accounts she was not expected to live." 



However, the woman did recover. The children had been members of 

 the Congregational Sunday School, and were there in their classes the Sun- 

 day before. The Sunday after, a funeral service was held for them at the 

 church, their charred remains, burnt and crisped beyond all possible recog- 

 nition, having been buried on Saturday. Much censure and reproach was 

 vented upon the fire company in connection with this calamitous fire. The 

 city council therefore appointed a day and sat as a court of inquiry upon 

 the case. It was then proved that the fire company had done all that they 

 possibly could under the circumstances, and were in nowise at fault or justly 

 blamable for au}^ part of the dreadful affair. However, it resulted in 

 some additional facilities being provided for fire protection. 



STREET CAR SMASH-UP. 



May 30, 1892, the street car line up Fair Oaks Avenue to Mountain 

 View Cemetery engaged to carry the G. A. R. men and their friends attending 

 the decoration ceremonies of Memorial Day. In the afternoon two cars were 

 loaded full of people at the cemetery, %hen coupled together and started to run 

 as far down as the Painter Hotel by gravity, without any horses attached. 

 But when about half way down the cars jumped the track, the forward one 

 rolling over down the embankment westward, while the other one was 

 smashed and racked but not turned over. Yet, marvelous to tell, while 

 nearly every man, woman and child on the two cars were hurt in some way, 

 none were killed, and only two cases of broken bones or serious injury 

 occurred. 



LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS. 



November 18, 1893, L. C. Winston, Esq., was lost in the mountains 

 north of Pasadena during a snow storm, and perished alone, his body not 

 being found, nothwithstanding the best efforts of experienced search parties, 

 until by merest accident about nine months afterward. Mr. Winston was 

 one of the earliest settlers here, even before the colony, and had been a 

 lawyer and notary public in Pasadena for many years ; while his wife had 

 been a teacher in the public schools much longer than any other person. 

 Hence his loss and death in the mountains was perhaps the most notable 

 calamity in the entire history of the settlement ; and I glean from newspaper 

 reports at the time a resume of particulars of the dreadful case. He was 

 out on a hunting and health trip, in company with Charles Brown of 

 Pasadena and Palmer Reed of Sierra Madre. And now I quote from the 

 Pasadena Star of November 23, 1893 : 



"The facts regarding the affair, as related by Messrs. Brown and Reed, 

 are as follows : About three weeks ago these two gentlemen and Mr. Win- 

 ston went over into the mountains on a hunting and pleasure trip, taking 



