Salvage crews are still at work at the scene of Seguin's biggest and a considerable amount of cotton... can be used for secondary processing.
    The origin of the fire still remains a mystery.  Starting before daylight Thursday, and in the center of the mill, it was not noticed...Firemen could do little but prevent the flames from spreading to surrounding property.  A number of box cars and their contents of cotton were badly damaged.  The Seguin Compress, chiefly  owned by Joe and Harry Freeman of San Antonio, puts the loss at about a half million dollars...The Public Weigher's scales and record were destroyed.  A high wind whipped the flames into a two block mass of seething fire.
OTHER BIG SEGUIN FIRES:
    Old timers will recall the disastrous fire of the year 1879, when an entire block of buildings were destroyed on South Austin and Court Streets.  The fire originated in the J. D. Douglass Boarding House,  located on the site now occupied by Duke and Ayeres.  The old Douglass building was a two story, one of lumber construction.  The flames spread as far as the corner to the south and then continued to the west, on Court Street.  Five farm store buildings in all were completely destroyed.  The old Reliance Hook & Ladder Company, and the "bucket brigade" of that time, were powerless to check the flames.
    Then a few years later came the Schulz Saloon fire.  This two story building stood on the corner of Austin and Court Streets, the site now occupied by the modern First National Bank Building.  Next, in the line of costly blazes, was the big Bruns-Krezdorn Hay fire, which occurred on New Years night of the year 1900, if our memory serves correctly.
    In the year 1915, if we are rightly informed, fire destroyed the old Poor Farm structure situated about four miles northeast of town, early on New Year's morning.  Six inmates perished in the flames.  Snow covered the ground at the time.
    The year 1922, month of July, witnessed the spectacular fire in the Blumberg buildings on South Austin Stree.  The blaze started in a vulcanizing shop at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and spread so rapidly that the San Antonio fire department was called upon for help.  The flames consumed practically all of the business places north of the big Blumberg Store.
    Notes on Fire
    Our Fire Department worked long and hard against over whelming odds and deserve much credit.  Chief Raymond Schneider of Randolph Field Fire Department is given credit for assistance with his apparatus.  He is a Seguin boy.
    The Ladies of the Firemen Auxiliary were busy serving their fighting firemen with hot coffee.
    A cow and her calf had been tied to graze under the platform and both perished in the flames.
Seguin Enterprise, September 21, 1945