Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-20
!. grocery House Of j
I sIorn D'stsoyed
..,,u, OOnaagration Ever
b the City
Fine Work Prevents
I, from Spreading.
.,,bl, Two Hundred and FIJI
Irl,Oussnd Dollars.

lgi uiRnNi -
,,sry house OF Joseph H.
italy destroyed. How
obligated is not known,
,as5 an alarm was turned
ans on the streets saw a
MN IN the northwest por-
,bs city, and soon
.,sn issuing from the Sec
The immense wholesale
.eof !. H. Brown, corner
rNkmortOn streets. TIL 3
IN answered promptly,
ensaye the building were
M few minutes the whole
X, building was one lurid
IA The fire department,
n vas useless to attempt to
.1dlug, turned its attention
5dlng buildings. All. the
h vicinity were carefully
IA fiftmen mounted on
% prevent, ii possible,
~ lire from the sparks ana
M were flying In myrisds
,nouDd.
n minutes after the alarm
ihe inflammable material In
hsd burned to "a elnder,
m minutes TO / o'clock the
ftg on Throckmorton street
terrible crash, which could
heard sll over the city.
wall three storles high
gef a cry went up from q
reisons who had assembled
ihborhood, and for u time it
that some Of the firemen
buried under II, hut il IL
10 one Was injured. A few
t.iore / o'clock the east wall,
stood intsct, looking like a
d partition in the glare OF the
III whh u rumbling sound like
but no one WAS mi ured by the
hicks. The agricultural nipple.
USES Of ]. y. Mitchell & Co.
IVA, Huffman Co. on the vast
I'm sides OF the street were inn
\ tn danger Of igniting, but
Of water were continually
81 them and they were sayed.
81 Clty National bank building
Be corner Of Houston and First
8 was Preserved by the eIer-
bf the firemen, and by
FORK the fire was kept
ssdi1g. The burned building
from partitions except in the
the ssoond stsry where the fire
d, snd this fact, In o measure,
q spread of the fire, for
tl0Ms were burned through
= were guarded by the im-
itk walls.
the, flames were at their
sYeial loud explosions occur
,h sent volumes Of flames
10 The air. These EXPLOSIONS
badly caused by barrels OF
oil which were in the build.
.aliands OF small explosions,
by irecrackers and
b. were constantly Oc-
but no one was
burt by them. A. 1915 th e
tie huge walls of the building
U 10, ana the fire was confined
Interior on the ground floor.
lAes Of the night aided the tire
PINT In preventing the flames
Aading, aud had astrong south
'ea blowing the loss would have
lisal, ls II would have been
impossible to ssve the entire
Asst was, so great was the
a!s reporter sitting AT his desk
6AzEITE office Just one block
va sensiDly affected by the
Inch came through q closed
J, and the whole city was lilo
4 when the flames we're 81
ighest.
ne time the residences along
ltel "a far ~ Burnet were Sc
eadangered. The residence OF
. Hitchcock, on corner OI
y Lamar, Was on fire twice, 81
9lhat Of Mre. Grist, ana they
,ged only by the active exer-
Y ne occupants. Burning cin'
10 absolute showers in the
shen the nfl4grRtion wa
height and the grss,
stquently ignited. Tit
NE hcuseH for at least foul
.ng Second and Flrst streets
we're covered with burning
hes, snd only the wRtchful
rsens prevented the burning
buildings.
~ was so intense that tn,
!, who thrOnged the neighhar
/ INC hre could not approach
sAll q block OF the flames, anC
.nen were nearly roasted Will
m Streams of wster ON the ad
buildings.
I, ln OF the fire Ia unknov n
= believed to have original
"a the offices Ia tue secOni
must have been burning q
~, nour before the flames Wer
=, -; A gentleman connecteI
nArtln-Brown company soy
IA ht IN the second stoTy q
- 80 building some time prior {
s'ty OF the fire and w5ndere,
go 80 he even walked Aroun'
,s sss'llorton street and looked i
,s.eU'story windows, but as th
,il.luo brighter he supposed
4 and paid no further a
~ ne matter. AS soon az b
! Asrm he knew where th
ea building was formerl
! I'tory structure, but lai
I'M ~. Brown added two NOR
Oo ~ 81 a cost OF $40 600, and
- y, Imposing structure IN th
NJ, IS wlil probably reach $3.50
) sna ,si,o"n had q large stock 0
, dipsiy his spring trade. II