Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-26
THE DAY AT DALLAS.
The Commercial Hotel, the Taber.
nacle NJ. E. Church and a Phi
vate Dwelling Burned.
The B, & 0. Telegraph Company Defy
ing the Law-FOrt Worth 0hal-
lenged to Put BIN Up,
John L. Haynes Of Laredo Holds the
secon d Place on the Straight
Out Republican Ticket.
special 70 tho Gazette.

DALLAS, Tx, Sept. 2o.-At 1880
this morning fire broke out in the rear
of the Commercial hotel, which adj
joins the Tabernacle NJ. L. church,
North, on the east, on Elm street.
The usual amount of pistol-shots in
the immediate vicinity announced the
appearance Of the fire TO the rest of the
city. The flames spread with such
rapidity that the inmates and guests
of the hotel were satisfied 20
escape without their wRrdrObes aud
effects. The blaze simultaneously COM
municated TO the Tabernacle church
on the west and the dwelling on the
east, and by the time the downtown
engine arrived the three buildings
were solid mass OF flame, the blaze
was having the clouds and live Goals Of
! fire borne on the wind were falling as
| FIR of rs the Santa Fe depot, endanger-
ing all the houses TO the leeward OF
the cop1agration. Before the engines
began TO play on the fire the windows
OF Norton's building, on the west, aud
the cottage on the east, were also aiire.
The FIRE In the former OF these was
quickly extingulshed, and the fire con-
| fined to the other buildings, which
were destroyed. The Tabernacle
church, brick edifice, was a loes OF
$1,000; insured for $1,000, with Audrey
& Ewing. The Commercial hotel with
which Is included the cottage adioin-
ing on the east, was owned by w. ID.
Knowles and occupied by l.. ii. Till
man, and valued at $40, 900; unprotected
by insurance. Mr.. Tillman had $500
insurance on his household effects,
which covers the total loss of them.
The next cottage on the east, owned
by Mrs. Turner, now In Virginia on a
visit and occupied as a residence ny
A. Wilson, was loss of $500; unpro-
! tected by insurance. Mr.. Wilson had
time TO save his furniture. The damage
to Norton's building can he repaired
for $50 or SO, provided the wall
was not injured by the heat Lanlz's
buildings across the. street from the
church were damaged 10 the extent OF
, $50, which the insurance men VIII re-
pair. The origin Of the fire is yelled
+, In mystery. The inmates OF the house
who first discovered the Dire say that
II was under good aeadway when they
4 awoke, and their time was devoted lC
getting out and not to investigating
the origin of the heat. There were
about forty guests In the hotel, somt
(. of whom succeeded III carrying ou
their trunks and wearing apparel
! while others had only time 10 graf
, their clothes and run. The lossel
, sustained by the guests cannot b'
! arrived at, since they (the guests go
I 80 scattered they could not DO eorallet
! by the reporter. All the telephone
= | %, fFin. vsfara aaNynrnd fTbeFi
! was some difficulty In transmitting thi
: alarm to the East Dallas enRine-h0use
= on account Of the wire getting tangled
! with others, AID 1t was not until |
man rode TO the engine-house that tn
! East Dallas boys were appraised OF tn
: cOnflagTatlon.
In ali likelihood there will be som
! trouble over the Main street pave
! ment. The complaint OF the city, o
at least OF several Of the aldermen
!, that the work Is not beng done &C
= cording 10 contract. One law brn
will see the matter through the court
before they will pay their part, and th
street car people are in the same boat
80 that II will be some time befor
z everybody pays up, II they ever pay
The property owners on Elm stree
3 east Of Sycamore, are a unit againH
a the extension Of the Elm street pave
meDt. A petition circulated anon
' them caught every person who own
a foot Of ground on that highway
I X. B. Hickman who shot And.
I Pearson, at the Trunk railroad depo
at noon yesterday, this morning aske'
that his examining trial be postpone'
q tn Monday. His request wac CON
; piled with by Justice Kendall who u
Q his bond at 5000, IN default Of whic
; he was remanded 10 jail. Pearson
still alive. but there - small hopes .
. his recovery, the bullet having pens
trHied vital parts.
4 VIM. Lewis aud VIM. Epes, now !
o iaiI awaiting trial on the charge ofrof
n bling several stages. or the same stage
several times, IN Parker county, vii
n through their attorney Dir. Eugen