Posted by SFgenealogy on Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 14:13:36 :

A man named Dennis AHAR was burned to death in a building at the corner of Mission and Front streets, San Francisco, on Monday morning last. The deceased, with wife and 2 children, lived in the building, which was discovered to be on fire between 1 & 2 o'clock in the morning, and he perished in returning to recover some property, after having once got safely out of the building.

Source: The Contra Costa Gazette (Pacheco, Contra Costa County, CA), 8 July 1871. Transcribed by Dee Sardoc.