The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-12
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extend To the wooden buildings east.
The following account is from al
extra OF the Sherman Courier:
About 2 O'Clock this morning a fire
broke out in the rear portion of the fine
brick block of NJ. Schneider 81 Bro, OH
the northeast corner of the public
square, and destroy ed the entire build
ing. When discovered the whole rear
portion was in flames, aud the front
rooms so filled with smoke, that II was
impossible, almost, to save anything.
The fire company was soon on the
scene, and did all In their power, but
the fire had such start they could
not save the building. By a strong
effort the Long block, adjoining, was
saved, much damaged. Had the flames
passed this building, nothing could
have saved the wooden build
ings on North Travis, on the east.
Schneider Brothers lose about $50.
600 more than insurance.
Cook Brothers lose about g, 600 more
than insurance. They had S., 500 in.
sursnce. Their jewelry and watches,
with papers, etc, are In their safe.
Louis Pandres, and Wommock &
Co, in the Long building, sustained
heavy loss from water and removal
The Register Office, upstairs in the
Long building, was seriously damaged
by the falling, from some cause, of the
roof of the Long building. The type
is badly pied, and they will not be able
TO issue under a week. The Register
has an insurance of $1,000.
The loss from removal is great to
parties north of the Schneider build
ing. At this time lsix O. clock A. M.
the full extent of damage cannot be
ascertained. The fire is under com
piete control, and will not spread be-
You'd the Schneider building.
From best Information the loss will
not fall short OF $4,000.
The fire WAS evidently the work OF
an incendiary.
The following account of the origin
Of the fire, is taken from the Sher.
mans Registers extra:
Accounts vary as wildly as can be
imagined as to the place where /,
originated, but all concur that il was
the work of An incendiary. Horatio
StiDnett and Albert Kirkpatriek.
clerks at NJ. Schneider 4 Bros, were
sleeping in the store. Horatio Stip.
nett says that when he first awoke the
house was flied with dense bIac K
mokes almost sitting.
He sprang up and discovered fire on
top of pile Of clothing in the rear OF
the store, and another blaze issuing
from large pile of blankets under
the stairway, just In the rear of Cooks
drug store, some ten or twelve feet
from the other fire. He thinks the
two blazes were separate, and had
been ignited about the same time.
Mr.. Morris Schneider, the senior
member of the firm of Schneider a
Bro, was sleeping on the second floor.
Immediately above the place where
the fire originated. Young Fitzpatrick
called to him, and having aroused him.
told him not to come down the stairs
As they were then in flames. Mr..
Schneider rushed to the front of the
house and escaped down post to the
street, having on nothing save his
night dress. The young man rushed
out into the street and gave the alarm.
The statement that there we're two
or more distinct fires when first dis.
covered, seems to be we'll sustained.
and the william who applied the torch
evidently intended to make sure work
OF IL. Young Stinnett went to bed
about eleven O'Clock, and saw that all
doors were secure before retiring. II ia.
therefore, mystery that seems diff.
cult to solve how access could have
been gained to the center of the store
to apply the torch.
The wind was blowing from the
northwest, and great chunks of fire
were carried as far down South Travis
as the Jail, but fortunately iguited
nothing.
Another attempt to burn the same
building WAS made on the night of
April 18th, but the fire was discovered
in time to check it. The fire WAS
started ut that time In the cellar. near
the partition wall between Schneider,s
aud Cooks; and II it had been started
later In the night would no doubt have
swept the building.
The fire of last night following 40
close upon the unsuccessful attem pt of
last month leaves no doubt that some
one was determined to burn the build
ing.
The fire was checked on the Long
building adjoining Cook Bros. drug
store, but not until the building was
so badly damaged as to be almost
worthless. The great fire of 1875 VS.
checked on the same house.
The daily Register office was In the
second story of the Long building.
over Womack d Co., and is almost de-.
stroyed. The walls of the building
were sprung by the heat, the joists
gave way aud we're precipitated into
the office, breaking type and furniture.
Much type was ruined by the falling
clustering, and q large quantity OF sta.
iiOnery was lost by removal, The
presses We're not materially damaged.
and the Register will appear apais "a
soon a. material can be had from the
foundry. There was 81 600 Insurance
on the office. These were the princi.
pal losses sustained.
This was the third large fire from
which sherman has suffered Ia little
less than two years. In each one Of
these fires the Register has suffered.
In the first, February %, 1874, the of.
fiee was badly damaged by removal.
On the night Of November l, 1875. II
was totally destroyed by fire, not 4
thing being saved, and now Is almost
complete wreck again. We shall
change quarters At once and will have
the Register out again In few DAYS.
and unless no disaster worse than fire
befalls US, the Register will flourish for
many long years.
The Fair.
The secretary of the Fair association