Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-14


were funnel. The hot scorchlng
'ehirlwind drove the crazed multitude
hack from the cross streets, filing their
eyes with burning, binding cindcrS. (
over two hundred houses were blazing at
one time, aud the scene was nothing but
the realization OF
4 NERlrAnfE HApEs.
Here one saw sick lady being hur.
rledly carried away, over there band Of
servants and group Of children cryiug
mourntnlly al their fate. For q mile aud
G-haif this was the sight everywhere. At
last, when daylight broke. fully twenty
five thousand people were stretched along
the burning district watching and helping
where they could. About O'Clock the
gale subsidized, and about 1850 the fire had
spent Us iOtcc, and a small cottage near
the northwest corner OF Avenue o aud
Twentieth street marked the stopping
point OF Gahcston's great cUnhagraJion.
In SIX hours the flames here trayorsed
distance OF mile aud quarter Ia
southcasterly diagonal direction across
the sole Of our lady's sloc, starting In az
SiNteluth aud coming ont at Twunticih
street. Forty and unp-half blocks were
entirely swept away, nothing but the
bleak cbiuneys lti, standing The burned
district covers Just
ONE HUNDRED ACRES,
including the streets. -Four hundred
houses were burned and az near as can
be ascertaincd they last night contained
1000 families. In the poor district where
the Gre iirs, ragged the houses contained
several families each. Among the promi-
ncnt citizens whose residences were lu-
cluerated are;
Julius i.Rnge of Kaufman s Rupgc.
VIM. II. Sinclair, president City Rail.
way company.
Leon Blum, head of the house Of l.. *
II. Blum.
samson iicldonhcimer, the millionaire
capitalist
Morris las&cr, brother OF the celebrated
Herr LasSer.
George Seoly, president OF the Gull,
! Colorado \ Santa Fe railway.
Albert WSiss OF Half, Weiss & Co.
DR.. rru9hcart.
Mrs Dafugc.
II, Fcllman of Fellman & Grumhach.
X. +. George
Green Duiheld.
Mrs. McGale.
Mrs. Mccullough,
! DR. Fly.
mos. Goggan.
| Every one OF these names represents a
loss of from $4,000 to 100000 The
| business portion of the city has sustained
no loss, Twcnty-onc small. grocors, Gin
/ stores and saloons are among the burned,
| but their loss in no upprccahle way af.
! iects the business interests of the city A
careful estimate places the total loss az
/ over S2,0tJ000i Insurance, Sl,0V0,0Q0
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
GALVESTON, Tex, Nov. lS.--At liiL
! o'clock this morning the most destructive
lire in the history of Galveston broke out
4 in small foundry aud car repair shop
on the noSi side OF Avenue a, known o.
the Strand, between sixteenth and seven
tecnth streets. A fierce gale from u,
northwest was blowing at the time, 0nC
the flames spread with lightning rapiditl
to both adjoining buildings, one being
grocery store and the other an hunbl,
dwelling. In a twiukliug the long ilorl
tongues had crossed the street, aud twt
more dwellings were in Games, the PEG
pie barely escaping
WITH LIVES ANp CLOTHES.
AZ this moment the fire department 20
two streams going, but they were of NJ
avail. The heat became 80 intense tina
the tiremcn had TO abandon their positions
aud the wind rose and carried myriad
of sparks to the premises east OF Avenue
A. general fire alarm was sounded
and in half an hour two blocks wer,
burning lcrccly. BY O'Clock cveryon,
saw that great conlagratlon was upoi
the city. The people for squares OF
either side of the burning blocks became
panlc-strickeu, and the piercing cries o
] In ri l.. -,
above the hoarso din Of the fire, and
THE MoURNFUL WIND.
At 80 the fire had leaped three block
= distant from It's starting point, but In {
perfectly straight line, and was confined
to the block bounded by Sixteenth ant
/, Seventeenth streets.
About O'Clock the fire began TO sprca,
TO the cast and TO the west OF Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets. The wind ros
TO a gale and pandemonium rclgned. 70
the time 1t seemed as though the entir
eastern half OF the city was doomed
Onward and southwark loaped the flames
licking up whole blocks OF elegant resi-
dcnces, hastily abandoned by their iieeinl
inmates.
BY O'Clock the fire had reached Broad
way, which threads the center OF tn
iNlahhf ihhHlhE tdHb anu Nhct'
At O'Clock the wind gave signs o
dying, and shortly IL began TO shift, thcl
/, TO decrease, until by s O'Clock only a fai
breeze was blowing, but by this time tn
fire had eaten its way 10 Avenue o, wher,
at $50 II seemed 70 exhaust Itself, anC
the lremen coming up checked its furthe
/, ravages at this point, or within twt
blocks OF the gulf. The burned distric
covers tifty-two blocks, seven OF whicl
arc not swept entirely clean. IL is siXtecl
blocks in depth, and average width o
three blocks. From the house
tops the smoking burned distric
resembles large blacl
hIli-opened fan lying across the islam,
which, ut that point, Is nineteen blocks o
one mile and quarter wide.
THE FIRE LOCATED.
The fire started on the north side O
Avenue A, better known as the Strand
which Is one block from the bay, and
stopped within two blocks Of the gull
Sixteenth street il nine blocks west o
the extreme inbabitable end Of the island
the first residence street being Sixth