Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-08
,gsr People Meet with a Horrible
Death in an Hotel Fire at Rock
dale, in Milan County.
81, a. Thirteen PersaHs Known to Have
been liz thr Building Only Two
Escaped With ThsirLiVs g.
-, pot,rrHre and Several BuHineFs Houses
yurusd-nrig;n of the Fsre Un-
kEown-The Loss Heavy.
. gEIGBTFUL CATASTROPHE.

/ gGgAD4LE, lex June 4.-RoC6Q6le
wsrIcEeE this morning ST little after
pd..az ai.a fire, sDd o holocaust SC
r,,1.1- gni hear.rsndiug that language
.7,squs.e to describe the scene. At
M gne stated the town was aroused by
rs # fire ard the 1spii discharge Of
ss,.ns, the fire having origina ed about
@s:.a:l csss in the office Of the three
an brick building known ss the Mun-
/ d. 11.sL So terrible and rapid wss
8. BoI5 q the flames, inst Of thirteen
r,Tn to hive been in the hotel eleven
kissed These known to have been
Hs:s;
NB5 ". 4 BROOKS, wife Of the pro-
| r50. Of the hotel. aud her four eoGs
rds1cut four, six, piEe and fifteen
iHs, respectively.
| ] r BRIscoE, wife and two little chill
I:Ac CEowN and q travelling sales.
ISL supposed from papers found to be
Hnsd
PEyBERToN PIERCE, representing
41'gs Zgigler of Pnilsdelphis, but the
I mtt. register ueing lost there is nothing
IT. 10 Identify him oy.
Hg D NJ. OLDHAM, representing F.
la.9Q { Co. Of Galveston, escaped with
@HJry.
DR r. a. BROOKS, proprietor, was
I ,Isd by mSin force out of the room
y:spied by his family, behaving reached
; as door, but resisting every effort to be
ggt beiotS his wife and Children. He
carried down the rear staircase.
NJ 5 NJ. Oldham, who occupied so
ggsne southeast rOo9 on the second
| 0T, SAYS that he was awakened by q
.Elg, cracking sound. He thought.
| ISIS storm had Sriser and Was blowing
/. t: DOORS and window blinds about, but
aMC1 detected smoke in his room. He
rQle, vent to the door and only opened
tE,te enough to see the flames in the
] ILL.,. Hastily closing the door, he went
; 9Ge window, threw his clothing out on
| 9; vide YeraUdGh which surrounded the
| Ksl and east side OF the
s:3li story, and from there TO the
ig511d. he then followed, by sliding
3Rl one Of the supports to the veEandah
Almost Immediately sitter reaching the
|F'unt he saw t1e party supposed TO be
iaH5eJ40n Pierce rush out on the Yeran-
Ihaghsme and Ieap to the ground,
|Fklg on his head and
KILLING BIN INSTANTLY.
nus have persisted two most estima-
{ kmilies, one of RJckd4le's most
Mnisng young business meI, Isaac
i'Snr and stranger whose sad f.te
VII ;sr!le and grieve those 80 whom be
rs dear.
81 7. BRIsCoE Was for msny years
IIGoer a. this plsce, thoroughly respected
avery one, who ny thrift ard Industry
20 risen to Independence. He recently
Mto7t his bus ness here and opened in
U same line st Taylor. He was msr-
Id ioa young and besutiiul woman who
I'd her two little children had stopped
M here being en- route 70 her girlhood's
E1e in Indiana. She was joined by her
.aoshd WHO came on the 1880 train last
Ssalr only 10 share with his loved ones,
AHoRRIBLR DEATH.
MRS. BROOKS who has been jde ntifed
ta al that is good Of Z ockdsle since its
Instruction WAS well and widely known
gae travelling public, her husband aud
" always having kept the principal
aR here.
DOCTOR BROOKS is entirely dazed,
sNned at heart and badly Injured, but
'aS'ner fatally or not cannot be
@ssfnined. II is thought he may re-
SAC CROWN, the junior psrt-
& Of the firm Of L. Baum
Co. WAS about thirty
iaiS Of age and unmarried. No citizen
4, higher pace in the esteem and con-
';TaCe Of all than did this young man.
iae origin of the fire is coniactaral.
ne hoIelbuildlng was occupied on the
M ~ 'oor by the Uaited States posto fR,e
:. !ae aFm Of T. B. Kemp & Co, general
: sFcaants, snd from neither could snY-
sag De saved except such valuables as
'|s contsined IN flre-proot safes.
adjoining to the hotel on the north side
u one-storS brick building owned by
~ Ferry and occupied bY J. r. Row
W lof the storage Of general merchsn-
~, whose main stock was kept in the
,,.-llng adjoining still on the north. The
W lsmed building WAS entirely con-
S . Hith its contents, and the last
a .,.ea is nearly destroyed with the goods
t.!.y damaged. Here the course OF the
y was checked by the heroic efforts of
!, !, Izens, who worked with NJ ceasing
J. hairless energy unsided by organize
n. Of any kind and no coavsniences for
',Asilirg water.
), !! business here Is entirely suspended
~ gloom has been cast over Rockdale
~'a cannot be removed for many dsy.
THE NEWS AT TAYLOR.
S'ial to the Gazette.
! 'ttiLoR, TEX June 4-The news OF |
: turning Of the Mundine hotel this |
, !. At e. m. cast a gloom over this |
n Us all parties are well known here,
nc Oh them being here Sunday and |
sGg lett here for RocBdsle st 10 p. N.
iS,.A Bflscoe, who WAS in business here,
y VI Inc 10 p. m. train for Rlckdale, to |
!, he {, nus family here. He, his wife snd |
, children are smong the victims.
- r Crice, drummer, and noted as 6
s4POSer OF music, attended church here |
,Ce yesterday. He represented Messrs.
!, eIset q Co., Of Philadelphia, Ps., and |
!, several large orders for goods.
: lumber Of Taylor citizens have gone |
~ kaaie, and several leave tonight |
''1uer all the Assistance possible.