Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-30
CHARRBD REMAINS.
The Sad Fate Of One John Kelly in a
Boarding House Fire
at Dallas.
The House TotEI Wreck-Dr. SmOot
Had Changed His Mind Abgus
Sleeping at Home that Night.
Pilts0urg, Pa, Visited by c Three Hundred
Thousaud Dollar BInzs-A Loss Of
100000 at Malone NY.
a BIszs at Dallas.


Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX JIn. % This morning
st O'Clock the aiarm Of fire was turned
in, and it proved to be the boarding house
of John c. Jones. on Patterson avenue.
Under the excitement of the first alarm
the department did not get the word until
the fire was fully under way and the house
wrapped in flames. The house, in conse-
quence, could not be saved and WAS e to-
tai wreck. The fire in few minutes de-
struyed the contents OF the house and
the belongings of all the bo.rders,
but the sGddest part was the loss Of life.
John Kel J, or McKslly IS some call him,
was burned to death, his chsrred ana
blsckened remains being taken from the
ruins after the fire had been entirely eX-
tinguished.
1t sppesrs thst Thomas Clifford, John
Kelly and Thomas King made night of it
seeing cocks fight ana having
HIGH OLD TIME
OF it generally, coming home this morn
ing, ell, more or less, under the influence
OF liquor about $3.50 O'Clock,
King was, according to
Cliford's account, pretty drunk,
and he and Kelly saw him (King) to his
room, and that is all he knew, until he
amelled the smoke and soon saw the
flames rushing into his room ne2r the
door which leads into the hallway. Hav-
ing Just returned he got up and discover
ed that his escape was cut of by the door.
He felt his way in the darkness and thick
smoke, almost suffocated, for the window,
which ne found, and breaking il aisr, fell
rather than jumped from theIwindoW Sec
ond story to the ground, sustaining but
Sigh. injury He feels certain that be saw
his room mate, K=lIy, go out of the door
before the flames appeared and believed
he mad made his escape. Mr.. Jones, the
proprietor, quickly made his way to the
hall above, when he WAS aware the house
was on fire. to arouse the sleep rs, anG
ne thinks he saw Kelly in the hallway,
with others who were hurrying down
stairs. DR.. Willard G Smoot bad rot
b en- seen, and Mr.. Jones when the flames
were all around him knocked aud called
for Smoot to get up, the house was on
fire; snd he says he ceived positive
answer CT "All right, and latter on,
when
DEAD BODY WAS FOUND,
the conclusion was that it was DR..
DLuOub Ills OLOEuSE SAllS h0O OCllGVGO
II to be his. 1t was so badly burned ana
blaCkened that II was, however, impos-
sIble to trace q feature or recognize 3
brother or anybody else. Still it was
believed to be Smoot up to 10 O'Clock,
when that gentleman put In an appear
auce at the Grand Windsor huteI, and
teiephored to the central station that he
was alive and had not stopped at the
hOnsp hnpiOU tho r1iuhE h. he
id, which was true, that he had taken
Mr.. Smoot to his boarding house
between s and O'Clock in
the morning, but that gentleman
changed his mind and lodged elsewhere,
conse quently the body Wss that of Kelly.
When Clifford viewed the body st the IN
dertsker's before Smoot had ur ed up,he
said 1t was that of Kelly, but seeing the
remains of I kid glove clasped in one of
the hands Of the deceased, he remarked:
at csn't be Kelly either, for Kelly never
wore kid gloves and had no such az ar
ticle about hin" But, nevertheless it
was poor Kelly's body, and perhaps the
glove will ever remain mystery. IN
dertsker Z9lenkie says that he must nave
been smothered to death, as
he died face downward, for he
said: "You gee his back all the way
down is
BURNT TO CRISP,
snd the hair and scalp stripped from the
Bone, while the abdomen in places has
scarcely been scorched."
MIR LIcey, another boarder, occupying
room with a companion ACROSS the hall
opposite TO Kings room, says: 81 heard
the boys come home aboul $50 O'Clock.
They were pretty noisy and l mad about
made up my mind that II they did not
stop their racket would get up and stop
il for them, when there was an unusual
hustle and noise 1 could not &C
count for, other than songs and
merry making and got up and opened
the door aud saw King standing in the
hall before the door partly dressed, and
also saw the house Wss on fire, and M
partner and myself hurried into oar
clothes; passing King We told him to