Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-05
EIsysn People Meet with a Horrible
Death in an Hotel Fire at Rock
dale, in Milan County,
Ist 81 Thirteen Persons Rn0Wnse Have
been III the Bgildsng 0liy I've
EseRpcd with Ths!r Lives.
xne PossoHee and Several Business Heusss
5urued-OhssH OF tho Fire Up-
kuOWn-The Lose Heavy.
A rRTGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.

O'Clock With IRE, and holocaust SO
appalling and hesrtreuding tina! language
z ,nsdquste TO describe the scene. At
.5e tine stated the town was aroused by
cries Of IRE and the Ispii discharge OF
f.e arms, the fire having originated shout
the stair case IL the Office OF the thee
s,of7 brick building known as the Nun
dine hotel. SO terrible and rapid was
ths work OF the flames, that of thirteen
kroan to have been in the hotel eleven
persisted. These known to have been
ZOE: axe:
Nus. v. A. BROOKS, wife Of the pro-
oriator Of the hotel. and her four sons
aged soout four, six, zine and fifteen
ysSfs, respectively.
!. {. BarscoE. wife .nd two little chill
azea.
ISAAC CROWN and 3 travelling sales.
uan supposed from papers tOuud to De
nsned
PEgBERTON PKRcx, representing
George zsigler Of Philadelphia, but the
hotel register being lost there is nothing
more 20 Identify him by.
MR D. NJ. OLDHAM, representing F.
Cannon Co. OF Galveston, escaped with
GU. II iury.
Dr. ". A. BROOKS, proprietor, was
pulled by main force out Of the loom
occupied by his family, heshavlng reached
the door but resisting every effort to be
saved Before his wife and children. He
was carried down the rear staircase.
NJ. B. NJ. Oldham, who occupied an
extreme southeast room on the second
story, says thst he was awakened by 6
roaring, cracking sound. BE thought
thst storm had arisen spd was blowing
the doors and window blinds about, but
&c soon detected smoke in his room. He
sgose, went to the door and only opened
I: wide enough TO gee the f1mes IN the
hsI. Hastily closing the door, he went
to The window, threw his clothing out on
tue vide verAudsh which surrounded the
south and east side OF the
second story, and from there TO the
ground. He then followed, by sliding
down one Of the supports TO the verandsh.
Almost Immediately after reaching the
ground he saw the psrty supposed to be
Pemoerton Pierce rush out on the vsrsn-
dLn all shsme and leap to the ground,
striking on his head and
KILLING HIN INSTANTLY.
Tins have persisted two most estims-
be families, one of R)ckdale's most
promising young business meU, Isssc
Crown, and = stranger whose SD fate
vii! stArtle and grieve those TO whom he
was dear.
J. f. BRIsCoE was for many years y
barber at this place, thoroughly respected
By every one, who by thrift and industry
asd risen to independence. He recently
sold out his business here and opened in
tie same line st Taylor. He wss mar
Red 10 young snd beautiful woman who
with her two little children had stopped
over here being en- route to her girlhood's
home in Indiana. She was joined by her
husband who came on the IL 80 train last
hight, only to share with his loved ones,
HORRIBLE DEATH.
Mrs. BROOKS who has been identified
with sill that is good OF R ockdsle since It's
construction WAS well and widely known
BY the travelling public, her husband and
S1c Always HaVlbS hCPG Eue pIluClDhA
hotel here.
DOCTOR BROOKS is entirely dazed,
crushed 81 heart and badly Injured, but
whether fatally or not cannot be
determined. It is thought ne msy re-
cover.
isaac Crown, the junior part
ner Of the finn OF I. Baum
Co. was about thirty
years Of age and unmarried. No citizen
held higher p,ace IN the esteem and con-
htence Of sill than did this young msn.
The origin of the fire is conjactural.
The hotel building was occupied on the
first hoor by the United States postc flee
and the firm OF T. B. Kemp & Co., general
merchants, snd from neither could any.