Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-11
FIRE AT CLEBURNE.
A Thirty Thousand Dollar Blaze-hali
the South Side of the Puoiie
Square Burned.
supnosed Origin of the Disaster-Coai
Oil and Observation-Disclosures
of Losses.

Special TO the Gazette. ,
Cleburne, March l0.-A fire ms
morning destroyed over one-haii tne
hnildinSs on the south side OF the
SNARE. At half past three O'Clock an
oi,rm was given and those who flrst
,esnonded saw smoke coming out OF
The building occupied by the Mer-
chants Exchange saloon. Inc saioon
,vos nm the lower floor of a two.story
brick building, the upper moor Deing
unoccupied. Al the time oil the souhu-
inr of the alarm there was a strong
odor of burning coal oil, ana uelse
black smoke seriously hindered at
tempts at saving property i1eioie
ANYTHING was done the whole bulldlnS
was wrapped in flames, which were
soon communicated to the adjoining
building on the east. This, II twin
building of the other, was occupied Oh
the ground floor by Laske " FABIAN,
drv goods and groceries, and III me
second story by the law offices
of pointdexter 81 padeliord, Del'erry
& smith and Oates d English.
This was soon laid in ruins, and the
onlv property that was saved was
nbout $1,000 worth of stock by Luski u
Fabian. The law Cillces and their
contents were total losses. sun
further to the east were two one-story
wooden buildings, owned by IL. M. d
O. s. Heath. The nearest was uuoc-
cupied and the other, which was ON
the corner, was occupied by j. &.
Mabry AZ grocery. These were soon
nlire. and did not require many min
l.. fhnnN tn uGhng IL ere
the intervention of the street stopped
further progress of tie fire on The
east.
ON the west of the building in which
the fire commenced, II two-story brick
was badly damaged by fire and water.
Rice's saloon in this building lost
largely by removal. Energetic efforts
of volunteer iiremen, who at the risk
of injury to themselves mounted to the
roof and kept continual stream
Of water pouring down on the parti'
ton wall, saved further destruction.
There seems to be little doubt that
the fire was started 10y incendiaries.
Street comment freely duplicates GER
tain parties. Whether this is correct
remains to he seen 1t is shameful
fact that nearly every fire that has oc.
Cured in the business portion OF town
has been Improbable incendiary origin.
1t appears that little strict investiga-
ton by the authorities would not be
Later developments
may be OF absorbing interest.
The following statement OF losses
and insurance has been compiled:
Heath Bros, two wooden buildings,
loss s., 400, insurance $1,000; Il. J.
Chambers, two brick buildings, loss
50 900, insurance 5000; PointdeXler Il
law library and furniture,
80 600, insurance So 800; Echols * Ba-
con, saloon stock and fixtures, $500,
insurance 81 700; DeBerry & Smith,
law library and furniture, $1,000, insu-
rance $500; Oates N English, law libra
ny and furniture, 600, no insurance;
Laski Il Fabian, stock of goods, %, 600,
Insurance -, 300 In addition, Messrs.
Pointdexter IL Padellord lost large
number Of notes and accounts, whose
aggregate cannot be given. Del5erry
Il Smith incurred similar loss j. g.
Mabry, Rice ~ Brown, G. Il. Schmatl
and Chas. Mayer sustained extensive
losses by removal and water.