Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-20
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he found
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HOIk DS the ponce dL IDaJ uISs StttO
DR.. Schaeffer, when seen subsequently,
at the hospital ''Why, was the only
doctor on the scene and mine was the
only ambulance, and it was only luck
that I got there at all. We only received
q common hurry call to the Thlrtleh
street police station, and when l got
there 1 found the body of an
old man, William Glennon. He had
been suffocated. and after getting his
name I jumped into the ambulance to
return to the hospital. Not word had
been said about any of the others, and
out of curiosity alone ] told the driver to
drive around Seventh avenue. When
we got to the house I stopped the ambu-
lance and got out and stood for mo-
ment talking to policemen and firemen. -
"Are there any others burned?'' I
asked.
eyes, - replied one Of them. "There
are some people up stairs. -
''Where are they?'' I asked.
''He could not tell exactly where-they
were up stairs. I went up stairs and in
one room found four bodies and in an
other three bodies. They had been
suffocated, but from the looks of them
and from feeling of the flesh
/ am sure some of them
could have been saved if a general call
the fire alarm There has been a great
blunder on the part of some one. All
there was left for me to do was to send
the GlennOn boys to the hospital and then
with the patrol wagon carry the dead to
the station house. Young GlennOu win
be all right in a few days but his brother
William may die. -
GLFNNON 5 STORY.
John GlennOn tells this story:
81 don know, - said he, chow
first knew it was fire. l smelled smoke
and the air in my room seemed oppres-
sive, but l then smened smoke from the
restaurant on the street. At first I paid
no attention to it. The smoke then got
thicker than usual, and to see what it
was l got out of bed, drawing on my
trousers as did so. I sat for second
on the edge Of the bed. a sheet of flame
hared up past the window and I jumped
to my feet
YELLING FIRE
as loud as I could. The first yell seemed
to choke me and it sounded 10 me like a
whisper. The next was as loud as I
could possibly shout and it woke my
brother and mother. We ran to the
front window to get out on the fire es-
cape. We could not see it for the flames.
Right up past the windows the flames
bright metal and through the shutters of
one window little tongues Of flame came
through the Stats. VIII went to open
q window; before he could
get there the shutters were
all ablaze. Father was asleep, bRf VIII
woke him. We all went to the hall door.
Mother did not seem to want to go. She
hung back, and az last VIII and I took
her by each arm and VIII opened the !
door. The hall was fun of smoke. It /
rolled and twisted right before our faces |
for a moment, and then we started |
through il for the stairs. We could see |
there was no chance to get down. The |
flames were roaring up only a few feet |
away from us. As we got out Of the |
room VIII called to father to come, and |
suppOsing that he was with us, we started |
up. How we ever got through the halls /
10 the roof God only knows. Now and |
then we would meet someone else bound /
for the roof, but who they were we could |
not tell on account OF the smoke. When /
we cot On the roof, VIII cried
"where' 5 father, I thought he |
was right behind us. Leaving mother f
there we went back to the scutt3e but N |
stead of father, Mr., Wilson and his wife /
and children came up. He must be right
below here, said VIII, and down he went /
him, and we searched around with our
hands 40 find him. We could see moth
ING at all on account of the smoke, and
II was getting thicker all the
time. We could feel of moth
ing, and followed VIII as
he went along the han and then
down stairs to the next floor. 1 had to
stOp-there TO hold my breath. 1 seemed
10 be bursting. The smoke was not as if /.
il was just one thick fog like, but it
seemed TO come in puffs or rolls, and was
getting hotter. We went on that way
very slowly to the second floor. Below
us all was flames, but 1 saw VIII creep
ing down stairs, it seemed to me,
through a wall Of flame. l tried
tafoIlow too. but 1 could not, the flames
played all around the banister TO which I
held, and in a moment the skin began to
peel off my bands. In a moment VIII
came back and L heard him say: -
can't fnd him, / can't find him
When we get back to the roof it was
CROWDED WITH PEOPLE
from all houses in the block. WHY'S |
clothes were on fire and he could not see.
1 led him down onto the next house
where We found mother. Mother did not
seem to know us. She sat there rock
ing back and forward wringing her hands
the street and the doctor put Us into an
ambulance. -
The officer who arrested Snyder states
that one of the most suspicious ciTcum-
stances connected with the origin of the
fire was the fact that when he arrested
the proprietor of the restaurant at the
corner of Twenty street the lat
ter had his policy of $1,000 insurance in
his pocket, although he claimed he had
not been able to save even the cash in
the money drawer. The policy would
have expired September p.
SNYDER N THE TOMBS.
John snyder, the owner Of the Testau-
rant on Seventh avenue where the fatal
fire occurred this morning, and VIM.
Brooks, his cOlOred cook, who were ar
rested on suspicion of firing the place,
were arraigned before the coroner this
evening. Snyder was committed to the
Tombs without bail and Brooks was sent
TO the house of detention as a witness.
The police say they have Il good case.