Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-14
HE'LL
A Third Of the Clean
der CityConverted
Into Ashes.
One Hundred Acres i'm the
Residence Portion OF
2 the City Laid Waste
e in a Few Hours.
Four Hundred Dwell
ings Burned and a
Thousand Fami-
lies Homeless.
A IIowling Blizzard Blowing Sixty
A Iowling Blizzard Blowing Sixty
Miles an Hour Drives the
Red Demon from Bay
to Gulf.
The Loss Not Placed at Less Than
100000, the Insurance
s9S0,o00, and Relief
Fund $4,000.

An Epoch in tho Island City's Bistory.
Special TO the Gazette,
GALVESTON, TIN, Nov. l8.-The cruel !
hand of devastation rests heavily upon
the Island city tonight, and the setting |
sun marked day that will forever remain |
an epoch in its history About shutdown
last evening cold northeastern gale set
in and people sought the comfortable
shelter OF their happy homes. As the
night wore on the yale rose In its fury
and nj midnight the streets were almost
entirely deserted and
THE STORM KING REIGNED.
The shrill, piercing whistle Of locomo-
tiyes about the hour Of 1910 this morning
announced TO the slumbcting city that
something had happened. Flames were
discovered pouring from small iron
foundry known as the Vulcan foundry,
situated on north side OF Avenue y, bet
ter known as the Strand, between Six
tecnth and Seventeenth streets, In the
eastern portion OF the city, ON the side
adjoining this frame foundry was LARGE
dwelling house with grocery store In
its corner. In the twinblug of an eye
this building was wrapped in flames and
the poor occupants Were
FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES.
That the reader may get correct idea
of the city of Galveston and the path of
the dread scourge, let him imagine him
self before the gigantic upturned sole of
u lady's shoe, lying east and west two and
Il half miles from the mainland. The city
occupies the entire surface of the sole,
while the instep and the heel represent
the unoccupied portions of the island.
On the north side of the imaginary up
turned sole lies Galveston bay, dotted
with ships, while for miles along that side
OF the shoe is the great wharf. on the
west side Of the Shoe Is
THE STORMY GULF on MEXICO,
while of from the toe Is the channel and
the famous jettlcs. The business portion
of the city lies Immediately under the
ball of the imaginary lady's foot, The
toe Of her great sole is tlllcd with spa
cious wooden mansions. Running length
wise about the center of the sole is
Broadway or Avenue S, the Fifth avenue
of Galveston. The streets running
len athwisc of the foot are all avenues be-
ginning with Avenue a, which runs along
the wharvcs. Avenues b, G, ID, and Il are
also known by the names of Strand, Me-
chanc, Market and Postofllcc streets.
The streets crossing the city beginning at
ginning with Sixth street near the waters
edge, where the bay and gulf meet. The
lire originated ten streets west OF the end
of the island at the foot Of Sixteenth
street. When the fire department arrived
at the scene the flames had gained fatal
Roadway and their efforts at wettng down
the houses in the path of the fire were
simply inappreciable.
TIKI GALE ROSE,
shifting o little more to the northeast,
and in thirty minutes the fire had leaped
three blocks and was doyouring the
houses of the poor residents on Avenues
u aud Il. Six squares were blazing.
Forty houses which few moments be-
fore had been occupied by nearly u hun
tred Door families were being dcyourcd
by the uncomfortable elements. At this
point the panic set in and II WAS now 3
O'Clock. The city was awake and
FRESZIED WITH ALARM.
The water.works did very poor service.
The mains seemed clogged and poured
feeble streams on the burning furnace.
Millions of flying cinders filled the air,
carrying the dreadful warning to the in
habitants away over ON the gulf side OF
the island, more than a mile distant.
Women, servants and half-elad children
were hurrying from q thousand neighbor-
lug houses, and the scene Of terror was
Wild beyond imagination. Onward came
! the wave Of fire, veering its course 70 the
southwest, in the vicinity OF the resi-
denees of the merchant princes OF the
| vity. No brick structure reared its
friendly head 10 stay the storm. The
| Gre ilend has selected
PATHWAY or TWAS PIaE.
I sfs.ae. 90 Z nHaH
| $50. 600 were swallowed up in thirty
minutes. The fire department was now
lost sight Of Tho heat had become so
inlepse that one could not get near the
burning belt. The larger houses burned
SO fiercely that the flames were white In
the ccutcr. The gale in the vicinity OF