"The Great Seattle Fire—Don't Blame Jimmie McGough," by Hugh McGough.
The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Saturday, June 15, 1895. - page 2:
NOT HIS GLUE POT
Jimmie McGough Makes an Annual Correction.
James McGough has been securing a good deal of notoriety every year that is not at all to his liking, although he is getting somewhat accustomed to it by this time. At the time of the great fire, June 6, 1889, when Seattle was wiped out of existence, it was stated in print that the fire started in his paint shop on the corner of Front and Madison street by the overturning of a glue pot.
"I'm getting mighty tired of all this notoriety," said McGough this morning. "Every year the papers come out and say that the fire started in my shop and the story is all told over again. As a matter of fact, the fire did not start in my shop at all, and every year I have gone around and made the correction for the benefit of the newspapers. The fire started in a carpenter shop in the basement under my shop, and the place was owned by a man named Berg—I think that was his name. I'm not getting a pension for fathering the catastrophe, and I'm getting weary of the conflagration. But, then, I'm getting used to it, and I'm not half so sensitive about it as I used to be."
Every year the papers have something to say about the fire when the anniversary comes around, and the papers published the day following the fire, June 7, 1889, which contained a graphic account of the conflagration, are always used as a basis of information on the subject. And on every anniversary of the fire, McGough forgets all about the event until he reads about it and sees his name in the papers. Only once since then has he remembered the event in time to stop the mention of his name by appearing at the newspaper offices and making a statement of the facts in the case.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, Friday, January 21, 1910. - page 2:
JAMES M'GOUGH KILLED BY CAR
Motorman Says Victim's Horse Shied While Crossing Tracks
James McGough, a painter residing at Twenty-third avenue and Norman street, was instantly killed last night by a Mount Baker Park car in charge of Motorman R. L. Fitts. Mr. McGough was riding in a buggy, which was run down by the car.
Motorman Fitts told the police that McGough, when the car was nearing Eighteenth Avenue and Jackson Street, attempted to cross the car tracks directly in front of it, and would have escaped injury and collision had his horse not shied or balked while on the tracks. Before he could bring his car to a stop, Fitts said, it struck the buggy. The force of the collision veered the buggy off the track and threw the body of McGough under the car. After dragging him a distance of several feet, the car was brought to a stop and the body of McGough was taken out.
After the accident Motorman Fitts and Conductor Henry Winter voluntarily went to the police station, but were not detained.
Mr. McGough came to Seattle from San Francisco twenty-seven years ago. He was a boss painter and had amassed considerable property, having real estate at Three Tree Point, Vancouver, Wash., Queen Anne hill, Smith Cove and his home at Twenty-third and Norman streets. He was a member of the old Seattle volunteer fire department and was married in this city twenty years ago.
Mat Branagan, a family friend of Mr. McGough, stated last night that the distance from the point where Mr. McGough's buggy was struck to the point where his body was picked up was fully 200 feet.
There will be an inquest today and the burial will take place Sunday at Calvary cemetery, with the services from St. Mary's church.
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JAMES MCGOUGH
Service: 01/21/1910
Archdiocese of Seattle - Calvary Cemetery
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The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Saturday, June 15, 1895. - page 2:
NOT HIS GLUE POT
Jimmie McGough Makes an Annual Correction.
James McGough has been securing a good deal of notoriety every year that is not at all to his liking, although he is getting somewhat accustomed to it by this time. At the time of the great fire, June 6, 1889, when Seattle was wiped out of existence, it was stated in print that the fire started in his paint shop on the corner of Front and Madison street by the overturning of a glue pot.
"I'm getting mighty tired of all this notoriety," said McGough this morning. "Every year the papers come out and say that the fire started in my shop and the story is all told over again. As a matter of fact, the fire did not start in my shop at all, and every year I have gone around and made the correction for the benefit of the newspapers. The fire started in a carpenter shop in the basement under my shop, and the place was owned by a man named Berg—I think that was his name. I'm not getting a pension for fathering the catastrophe, and I'm getting weary of the conflagration. But, then, I'm getting used to it, and I'm not half so sensitive about it as I used to be."
Every year the papers have something to say about the fire when the anniversary comes around, and the papers published the day following the fire, June 7, 1889, which contained a graphic account of the conflagration, are always used as a basis of information on the subject. And on every anniversary of the fire, McGough forgets all about the event until he reads about it and sees his name in the papers. Only once since then has he remembered the event in time to stop the mention of his name by appearing at the newspaper offices and making a statement of the facts in the case.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, Friday, January 21, 1910. - page 2:
JAMES M'GOUGH KILLED BY CAR
Motorman Says Victim's Horse Shied While Crossing Tracks
James McGough, a painter residing at Twenty-third avenue and Norman street, was instantly killed last night by a Mount Baker Park car in charge of Motorman R. L. Fitts. Mr. McGough was riding in a buggy, which was run down by the car.
Motorman Fitts told the police that McGough, when the car was nearing Eighteenth Avenue and Jackson Street, attempted to cross the car tracks directly in front of it, and would have escaped injury and collision had his horse not shied or balked while on the tracks. Before he could bring his car to a stop, Fitts said, it struck the buggy. The force of the collision veered the buggy off the track and threw the body of McGough under the car. After dragging him a distance of several feet, the car was brought to a stop and the body of McGough was taken out.
After the accident Motorman Fitts and Conductor Henry Winter voluntarily went to the police station, but were not detained.
Mr. McGough came to Seattle from San Francisco twenty-seven years ago. He was a boss painter and had amassed considerable property, having real estate at Three Tree Point, Vancouver, Wash., Queen Anne hill, Smith Cove and his home at Twenty-third and Norman streets. He was a member of the old Seattle volunteer fire department and was married in this city twenty years ago.
Mat Branagan, a family friend of Mr. McGough, stated last night that the distance from the point where Mr. McGough's buggy was struck to the point where his body was picked up was fully 200 feet.
There will be an inquest today and the burial will take place Sunday at Calvary cemetery, with the services from St. Mary's church.
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JAMES MCGOUGH
Service: 01/21/1910
Archdiocese of Seattle - Calvary Cemetery
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"The Great Seattle Fire—Don't Blame Jimmie McGough," by Hugh McGough.
The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Saturday, June 15, 1895. - page 2:
NOT HIS GLUE POT
Jimmie McGough Makes an Annual Correction.
James McGough has been securing a good deal of notoriety every year that is not at all to his liking, although he is getting somewhat accustomed to it by this time. At the time of the great fire, June 6, 1889, when Seattle was wiped out of existence, it was stated in print that the fire started in his paint shop on the corner of Front and Madison street by the overturning of a glue pot.
"I'm getting mighty tired of all this notoriety," said McGough this morning. "Every year the papers come out and say that the fire started in my shop and the story is all told over again. As a matter of fact, the fire did not start in my shop at all, and every year I have gone around and made the correction for the benefit of the newspapers. The fire started in a carpenter shop in the basement under my shop, and the place was owned by a man named Berg—I think that was his name. I'm not getting a pension for fathering the catastrophe, and I'm getting weary of the conflagration. But, then, I'm getting used to it, and I'm not half so sensitive about it as I used to be."
Every year the papers have something to say about the fire when the anniversary comes around, and the papers published the day following the fire, June 7, 1889, which contained a graphic account of the conflagration, are always used as a basis of information on the subject. And on every anniversary of the fire, McGough forgets all about the event until he reads about it and sees his name in the papers. Only once since then has he remembered the event in time to stop the mention of his name by appearing at the newspaper offices and making a statement of the facts in the case.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, Friday, January 21, 1910. - page 2:
JAMES M'GOUGH KILLED BY CAR
Motorman Says Victim's Horse Shied While Crossing Tracks
James McGough, a painter residing at Twenty-third avenue and Norman street, was instantly killed last night by a Mount Baker Park car in charge of Motorman R. L. Fitts. Mr. McGough was riding in a buggy, which was run down by the car.
Motorman Fitts told the police that McGough, when the car was nearing Eighteenth Avenue and Jackson Street, attempted to cross the car tracks directly in front of it, and would have escaped injury and collision had his horse not shied or balked while on the tracks. Before he could bring his car to a stop, Fitts said, it struck the buggy. The force of the collision veered the buggy off the track and threw the body of McGough under the car. After dragging him a distance of several feet, the car was brought to a stop and the body of McGough was taken out.
After the accident Motorman Fitts and Conductor Henry Winter voluntarily went to the police station, but were not detained.
Mr. McGough came to Seattle from San Francisco twenty-seven years ago. He was a boss painter and had amassed considerable property, having real estate at Three Tree Point, Vancouver, Wash., Queen Anne hill, Smith Cove and his home at Twenty-third and Norman streets. He was a member of the old Seattle volunteer fire department and was married in this city twenty years ago.
Mat Branagan, a family friend of Mr. McGough, stated last night that the distance from the point where Mr. McGough's buggy was struck to the point where his body was picked up was fully 200 feet.
There will be an inquest today and the burial will take place Sunday at Calvary cemetery, with the services from St. Mary's church.
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JAMES MCGOUGH
Service: 01/21/1910
Archdiocese of Seattle - Calvary Cemetery
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The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Saturday, June 15, 1895. - page 2:
NOT HIS GLUE POT
Jimmie McGough Makes an Annual Correction.
James McGough has been securing a good deal of notoriety every year that is not at all to his liking, although he is getting somewhat accustomed to it by this time. At the time of the great fire, June 6, 1889, when Seattle was wiped out of existence, it was stated in print that the fire started in his paint shop on the corner of Front and Madison street by the overturning of a glue pot.
"I'm getting mighty tired of all this notoriety," said McGough this morning. "Every year the papers come out and say that the fire started in my shop and the story is all told over again. As a matter of fact, the fire did not start in my shop at all, and every year I have gone around and made the correction for the benefit of the newspapers. The fire started in a carpenter shop in the basement under my shop, and the place was owned by a man named Berg—I think that was his name. I'm not getting a pension for fathering the catastrophe, and I'm getting weary of the conflagration. But, then, I'm getting used to it, and I'm not half so sensitive about it as I used to be."
Every year the papers have something to say about the fire when the anniversary comes around, and the papers published the day following the fire, June 7, 1889, which contained a graphic account of the conflagration, are always used as a basis of information on the subject. And on every anniversary of the fire, McGough forgets all about the event until he reads about it and sees his name in the papers. Only once since then has he remembered the event in time to stop the mention of his name by appearing at the newspaper offices and making a statement of the facts in the case.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, Friday, January 21, 1910. - page 2:
JAMES M'GOUGH KILLED BY CAR
Motorman Says Victim's Horse Shied While Crossing Tracks
James McGough, a painter residing at Twenty-third avenue and Norman street, was instantly killed last night by a Mount Baker Park car in charge of Motorman R. L. Fitts. Mr. McGough was riding in a buggy, which was run down by the car.
Motorman Fitts told the police that McGough, when the car was nearing Eighteenth Avenue and Jackson Street, attempted to cross the car tracks directly in front of it, and would have escaped injury and collision had his horse not shied or balked while on the tracks. Before he could bring his car to a stop, Fitts said, it struck the buggy. The force of the collision veered the buggy off the track and threw the body of McGough under the car. After dragging him a distance of several feet, the car was brought to a stop and the body of McGough was taken out.
After the accident Motorman Fitts and Conductor Henry Winter voluntarily went to the police station, but were not detained.
Mr. McGough came to Seattle from San Francisco twenty-seven years ago. He was a boss painter and had amassed considerable property, having real estate at Three Tree Point, Vancouver, Wash., Queen Anne hill, Smith Cove and his home at Twenty-third and Norman streets. He was a member of the old Seattle volunteer fire department and was married in this city twenty years ago.
Mat Branagan, a family friend of Mr. McGough, stated last night that the distance from the point where Mr. McGough's buggy was struck to the point where his body was picked up was fully 200 feet.
There will be an inquest today and the burial will take place Sunday at Calvary cemetery, with the services from St. Mary's church.
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JAMES MCGOUGH
Service: 01/21/1910
Archdiocese of Seattle - Calvary Cemetery
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