Continuing with our "Albums of Remembrance" in the newspaper El Llanquihue, here are what we have made for Saturday, January 30, 2010. This page is produced by the CEPH every Saturday, and is published on page A2 in the printed format of the daily paper El Llanquihue. The information and photographs are from our archive and material that is facilitated by the community itself, as likewise the collection and analysis of literature from various sources and our own research.
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WERNER WINKLER FAMILY
On November 10 1852, arrived at the yacht port of Corral "Susanne" with 105 German immigrants. Due to the difficulties encountered in installing them in the area of \u200b\u200bValdivia, the settlement agent Don Vicente Perez Rosales resolved to place them Llanquihue colony, so they had to navigate to Ancud and then be transported by barges to Melipulli, arriving on 28 November. A few weeks later, on February 12, 1853, Vicente Perez Rosales founded the city of Puerto Montt, in honor of President Manuel Montt then. Among the settlers who participated in the foundation, was present Gottlieb Werner Wendler, a native German carpenter from the town of Ruppersdorf, Sachen. He arrived with his wife and daughter Johanna Johanna Döring second son Ernst Heinrich was the first child of German immigrants born in Puerto Montt, in January 1853. Another 9 children will be added later, giving rise to a large and important family in our area, originally settled in the area called Drain (now the city of Llanquihue). In the photograph shows one of his grandsons, Johann Gottlieb Werner Gebauer Alwine with his wife and children Raddatz Winkler Herbert and Oswald, captured in 1909 through the lens of photographer August Osorno Christ.
 CALBUCO GREAT FIRE
On Sunday January 31, 1943, at 1530 hours Calbuco was hit by a huge fire that reduced to ashes much of the city. According to the Official Party of the Fire Brigade, commanded at that time by Carlos Mechsner, the incident started in the property owned by Custodio Mansilla, located on Calle Antonio Varas s / n between Ernesto Riquelme and Federico Errazuriz. That day, many families were out of their homes, enjoying a warm Sunday, and others had traveled in their boats to Candlemas on February 2 Carelmapu. The fire spread quickly and violently for several blocks, due to several factors: the strong wind from the south at first and then changed direction, a shortage of water in wells emergency after a hot summer dryness of the tiles of houses, lack of implementation on fire for this type of fire and the voracity of the flames prevented effective work of staff. The bottom of this disaster has resulted in the destruction of 118 homes and millions in losses in property, facilities and goods. The image captured that day, shows an overview of Calbuco while burning on several fronts.
 FRUTILLAR
was founded on November 23, 1856 by German immigrants who settled on the western shore of Lake Llanquihue during the Germanic settlement in the government of President Manuel Montt. The settlers initially built their houses in the surrounding hills because of the swampy land near the lake. Is entirely devoted to farming and agribusiness, to the functioning of dairies, mills, distilleries, tanneries and some stores devoted to selling groceries and tools, incorporating the emerging village their customs and traditions they brought from their homelands . Since the people were stopping point between Puerto Montt and Osorno had a rapid development through trade and the establishment of small industries. Culturally, the city is doing these days the 42 version of the Musical Weeks of Frutillar (27 January to 5 February), which since 1968 allows classical music is present every year, featuring famous orchestras and performers of national and international. The image, captured by Karl Ernst in the mid 1930's, shows a general view of Frutillar Low.
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Grande fire Calbuco
By Paul Katz (Article extracted http://www.amigafm.cl/pagina_nueva_4.htm )
John van Bergenhenowen msf was a Dutch Catholic priest, closely witnessed the sad events in the Isle of Calbuco January 31 1943.Ese day there was the largest fire on record in southern Chile, and the priest wrote a book impressed testimonial, which was preserved a manuscript of his handwriting, which rightly entitled "Great Calbuco fire." Reading his pages, he travels to the past. That Sunday
31, many calbucanos had gone for a walk, each had embarked on their sailing boats to be in the fiesta of Candelaria Carelmapu on February 2, others to eat field curanto. Sun, abundant food and drink, when suddenly, near the time "onces" they heard the alarming fire bell, watching the firefighters run from its headquarters located at Calle José Miguel Carrera to Antonio Varas where the first houses were on fire. It was the beginning of a disaster. Those who saw the smoke of the islands in front of the revelry left to return to guard their homes, but the fire quickly spread to businesses, government offices, hotels and everything that made up the thriving old city was a port narrow streets, in addition to producing center of canned seafood in the country and abroad.
The south wind at the start, coupled with the dryness of the shingles and the lack of water in the wells of emergency after a hot summer, became a big fire to the people integer. The fire quickly spread without barracks, houses burned spontaneously and instantly the consuming fire, to explode violently hurled into the air and wood shingles that promoted the fire burning in another sector. The tongues of hell reached unbelievable heights. People were running and trying to put a guard their valuables, but not having insurance in place and the people left them on the beach, where watched with quiet resignation to their property. At 19:30, with cruel irony, it burns Fire Headquarters against the very Church from which evacuated their images, benches and props. Across the street, the inexorable advancing flames, until they stopped due to water from a well bottom. The last attack of the god Hephaestus came from the north, burning all Vicuña Mackenna Avenue near the beach, then up the slope that is under the current Plaza Balmaceda, burning buildings in the southern front.
They fought bravely to save the parish, for the third time threatened. It was 21 hours and the heroic firefighters calbucanos exhausted and forgetting their own homes were able to stop the fire near his church, that through a construction completely disarm one side and keep water from other nearby school. At that time, firefighters have arrived from Puerto Montt to board the cutters glorious Yelcho helping to overcome these main buildings in the moral codes and reconstruction of the destroyed village. The 12 main blocks had been destroyed and only the distant barrio La Vega had been saved.
Father John came to give comfort to their victims, under the brilliant night that covered with a blanket of cold and desolation, it was a sad moment where it continued to burn than material desires, memories and hopes of an entire people. Through his writings, we can now remember what happened.
Official Party of the Command of the Fire Department of Calbuco Excerpted from the book "CALBUCO FIRE DEPARTMENT CENTENNIAL HISTORY 1902-2002"
(Article extracted http://cuadernoscaicaen.blogspot.com/2006/08/el-gran-incendio-de-calbuco-en-1943.html)
PARTS BOOK
COMMAND ALARM FIRE ACT
In Calbuco , Sunday, January 31, 1943 at 15, 30 hrs., a fire broke out on the property of Mr. A. Custodio Mancilla, located at Rua Antonio Varas s / n between Ernesto Riquelme and Federico Errazuriz, the building was occupied by the lord. Hugo Herrera E., Captain of the Port, who in addition to the office they hold, kept there his private rooms. Mr. Herrera was not currently in the City.
undersigned Commander was not the time date indicated in the city, but a long distance from town, and where it was not possible to distinguish the incident shows why, only until the time of your arrival, at about 18:00 pm, could be a the magnitude of the disaster. In this circumstance the data recorded in this part correspond to the information provided by people in the time of the fire, were in town and they were the first to go, to give the alarm.
They said the fire started in the house noted above, which spread rapidly because the office of the captain there were some drums of paraffin, used for service the lighthouse that exists in the passenger pier.
Because of the circumstances listed, and Sunday being a day of much of the population was out taking advantage of the warm day. The fire took proportions unforeseen reason that prevented the bombs could act immediately, we had to wait to meet some people that might drag the material to the vicinity of amagado sites.
contributed to the spread of fire the strong south wind, which later changed little sense, west breeze blowing, which came to complicate the situation, as the fire also changed direction and attacked buildings that did not run danger was therefore necessary to control fire, to distribute the scarce material in various sectors. When efforts were made to stop the disaster, did not give the expected result, since a little time to have started the fire, and covered several blocks from different directions, because the streets were burning buildings Antonio Varas, Ernesto Riquelme, F. Errazuriz. In the latter were two-story buildings, which contributed to fire in turn, due to their height, quite distant buildings of the same outbreak of fire, so much so that a house in Errázuriz street corner to another site Varas Emerald Street, corner of Varas. In this way it spread to other areas. Because
such exceptional circumstances, the pumps could not function normally, because on the one hand, it was necessary to remove the material amagado by fire, on the other hand, the water soon became scarce, and finally, volunteers, and people outside the institution had to leave their work at the pumps to save their furniture and belongings, and in their houses were in danger of fire.
At about 17:30 pm, the fire covered and six blocks, making it impossible for any work, as part of the tube material to be abandoned to the danger to people who attended. Nor was it possible to carry bombs out into the streets were in flames. It was not possible initially proceed with demolition of some buildings, the lack of any appropriate element, since the only Cía., rescue was in an area where it was impossible to remove, on the other hand, the little material available was in labor, and would not be wise move to other sectors.
In this emergency, the fire was consuming buildings. Increasingly faster, produced by changes in wind, so light built material and the lack of water. So at 18: 30 hours the fire would have done his work well and named the streets in Emerald, Angamos, Serrano, Condell, Aureliano Sánchez, Miramar, Plaza Ramírez and part of the Ave . Douglas (to the height of the Utility and the one that was saved due to the destruction of fences and small huts). In the Vicuña Mackenna, when the danger seemed remote, even remotely thought it existed, began to burn the roof of the house owned by the firm William Schmeisser and children, that being of light material could not be saved . In this sector the fire ended in the last of this avenue. On the street
Eulogio Goycolea, could cut the heat to about 100 meters from Ernesto Riquelme, for it was necessary for the Cia. salvage toppled a small house, contributed to this success the existence of a small wall firewall. Dominated The danger in this part and was able to transfer some material, with much effort to the corner of E. Plaza Balmaceda Riquelme, for the house occupied by the Interior located in this sector was already in flames, there might topple a warehouse, thus avoiding the fire continue along the Calle de Galvarino Riveros. In the same area of \u200b\u200bthe square in E. Street Carrera JM Riquelme with the fire threatened the School No. 1, which was saved after great and strenuous efforts, because the bomb was in the courtyard of that establishment, failed to act, because the sausage was not enough to take water because the well is deep, it was necessary to tear down a wall and was able to cut the fire using buckets and jars to shed water.
So that part could avert the danger and prevent the fire would endanger the Parish Church built in the street what JM Carrera.
When fire consumed the last house on the Avenue. V. Mackenna, where was the health office, we received the assistance of the Fire Department of Puerto Montt, whose volunteers after great difficulty able to land his bombs and deploy some of the material, but because of the few elements of the landing, the task took some time so the work of these are merely debris off the top, because there were still large flare, this work was done facing serious dangers, as the material was moved down the hill where there was a rise and the pumps had to work from the beach.
The fire was dominated more or less at 20:00.
The tragic outcome of this disaster has resulted in the disappearance of 118 homes, with the following detail, 54-storey houses with floor 23 of a gazebo, 38 two-storey, 2 three among these was a house of solid material , whose interior was completely burned.
losses according to a statement of those affected and self-knowledge amounts to the following figures, $ 5,159,000, property, facilities and goods, $ 3,668,000 .- for all this there is insurance that reached $ committed 1,581,000 .- of the 118 properties destroyed, only 34 were uninsured. In this incident
the Fire tube regret the total loss of your building and part of the material that was impossible to get, as well as file and directory Command, which was released only this book parties, because no was in the barracks.
for clarity on separate sheets attached to this record, a sketch of the village with all major endorsements, as well as full details of the properties on fire. CARLOS S.
MECHSNER 1943 COMMANDER
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