Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-30
CHARRED REMAINS.
The Sad Fate Of One John Kelly in a
Boarding House Fire
at Dallas.
The House a Total Wrsek-Dr. SmooS
Had Changed His Mind Absus
Sleeping ut Home that Night.
Pitsburg, Pa, Visited by C Three Hundred
Thousand Dollar BInzs-A Loss Of
100000 at Malone NY.
a Blez, at Dallas.

BEES at Dallas.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, jan. 90 This morning
st O'Clock the alarm Of fire was turned
! in, and it proved to be the boarding house
of John G.. 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 to-
tai wreck. The fire in few minutes de-
struyed the contents OF the house and
the belongings Of sill the bo.rders.
! but the saddest part was the loss of life.
John Kel =, or McKsIly IS some call him,
was burned to death, his charred and
| blackened remains being taken from the
| ruins after the fire had been entirely ex-
| iinguished.
1t appears thst Thomas Clifford, John
Kelly and Thomas King made night of it
seeing cocks fight and 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
Clifford's account, pretty drunk,
and be and Kelly saw him (King) to his
room, and that is all he knew, until he
smelled the smoke and soon saw the
flames rushing into his room nesr the
door which leads into the hallway. Hav-
ing Just returned he go. up and discover
ed that his escape was cut of by the door.
He felt his way in the darkness and thick
smoke, almost suffocsted, for the window,
which ne found, and breaking il ajar, fell
| thsn from 10 Df nvp (ao
opd story to the ground, sustaining but
slight injury He feels certain that he saw
his room mate, Kelly, 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
wss on fire, to arouse the sleep rs, anG
| he 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 r ceived positive
answer CT can right, and latter on,
when
DEAD BODY WAS FOUND,
the conclusion was that it was DIR.
| Shoots. His brother came and believed
| il to be his. It was so badly burned and
| blackened that 1t was, however, impos-
sIble to trace feature or recognize
brother CIR anybody else. Still it was
believed to be Smoot up to 10 O'Clock,
| when that gentleman put Ia an appear
auce at the Grand Windsor hotel, and
| teiephored to the central station that he
was alive and had not stopped at the
house during the night. hackman had
id, which was true. that he had taken
Mr.. Smoot to bis boarding house
| between 8 and O'Clock in
the morning, but that gentleman
changed his mind and lodged elsewhere,
conse quently the body was that of Kelly.
When Clifford viewed the body at the IN
dertaker's before Smoot had ur ed up,he
said 1t was that of Kelly, but seeing the
remains of 8 kid glove clasped in one Of
| the hands OF the deceased, he remarked:
est can't be Kelly either, for Kelly never
wore kid gloves and had no such "a ar
ticle about hin" But, nevertheless it
was poor Kelly's body, and perhaps the
glove will ever remain mystery. Un-
dertaker Zelenkie says that he must have
been smothered to death, as
he died face downward, for he
said: "You see his back all the way
down is
BURNT TO CRISP,
and the hair and scalp stripped from the
! bone, while the abdomen in places has
scarcely been scorched."
Mr. Lscey, another boarder, occupying
q room with a companion across the hall
opposite to Kings room, says: 81 heard
the boys come home abou5 $3.50 O'Clock.
They were pretty noisy and had about
made up my mind that il they did not
stop their racket would get up and stop
| il for them, when there was an unusual
| hustle and noise L could not &c
count for, other than songs and
merry making and 1 got up and opened
the door and saw King standing in the
hail before the door partly dressed, and
| also saw the house wss on fire, and ms,
partner and myself hurried into car
clothes; passing King We told him to
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