The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-18
VERY LATEST.
FIFTY Blocks in Galveston Burned
Ashes Where Over Three Hum
dred Residences Stood.
LAID WASTE BY FLAMES

| GALVESTON, Nov. IA fire which
broke out III Galveston at LAO O'Clock
! yesterday morning was so famed by a
| high wind that it was beyond the con-
troll OF the firemen. 1t burned until
| there was nothing left in its track Ia
| burn, and 800 houses are now in ashes.
| $40 families are homeless. The loss is
not Tar either way from So. 900. 900. The
insurance is about half that sum. The
IRE broke out IN small foundry on
| the north side of Stand street. near the
corner of Sixteenth. The flames rap
Idly spread under stiff north wind
and 1t was soon evident that there was
TO be great confiagration. Immense
clouds of sparks were carried four or
five squares over the roofs of wooden
houses. The entire fire department
was on the ground, but thew seemed
paralyZed and unable to fight the
fiames because of the fierce wind and
suffocatlng smoke. By $3.50 O'Clock
nIty buildings had been burned. For
i've squares south the fire was confined
to the width of one square between
sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
About O'Clock the fire began to
spread to the east and to the west of
sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
The wind raised to gale and papde-
monium reigned. For time it seemed
as though the entire eastern half of the
city was doomed. The fire spread rap
IDLY to the southwark, licking up
blocks of elegant residences, hastily
abandoned by their inmates. Bv 5
O'Clock it had reached Broadway
which threads the center of the island.
running east and west. At O'Clock
the wind gave signs of dying away.
and shortly 1t began to shift. then 10
decrease, until by O'Clock only a fair
breeze was blowing. But by this time
the fire had eaten its wav to Ayenue
y, where. at 8 o'clock. 1T seemed to ex-
haust itself, and the fremen coming
mp choked its further ravages at this
point, or within two blocks of the gulf.
Inc burned district covers fifty-two
blocks, seven of which are not sweDt
entirely clean. 1t is sixteen blocks I'M
depth, and averages a width of three
blocks.
DEATH OF EX-SENATOR SHARON.
Ex-senator William Sharon died
peacefully at his home FRIDAY alter
noon at 800 o'clock, sixty-four years of
age. those present at the deathbed
scene were General Barnes, Colonel
Fry. Judges Evans and Curry. his son
Fred, his daughter. Mrs. Thorne. his
son-1n-law Newlands, his cousin Alex
ander Sharon. his nephews William
and Clarence Sharon. his physicians.
McNulty and Garlic ZeiIe, and his Chi
nese servant XII. For tweufv-four
hours he absolutely refused to nav any
attention to the doctors orders. but |
devoted all his time to arranging his
worldly affairs. After these had been /
settled to his satisfaction he turned |
toward his physicians and told them |
ne was now ready to submit himself |
% their treatment. In the meantime |
the doctors kept issuing bulletins that I
sharon could not live beyond a few
hours. He lost the use of his voice |
Tor two days. but recovered it again. T
He never lost the use of his hands. /
and when he could not speak would |
motion what he wanted done. He was
kept under the influence Of ether and
Dplates great portion Of the time in
order 20 deaden the acute pain at the
heart.
"A cyclone At Dangerville. Texas. i
titled . colored family Of six persons. +
John A. Welles, son Of tie lannon's