Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-02
.LIKE A TINDERBOX
The Texas Spring Palace at Fort
Worth Destroyed BY Fire.
Several Lives Lost and Many
People Injured.

Nussei harrison Present ana Va1nty
Endeavors to Check the Panic-The
Scene in the Vicinity of the burning
Building Agonizing Loss Placed at
S25O, ,OOO-List of the Victims.
Fort WORTH, Tex, June Friday
night the Texas Spring palace was burned.
The exhibition was in progress, and
several thousand people were in the hall
when the alarm was given, and the
cries and screams of women and chill
dren were heard. There was the usual
panic rush for the door, and the crush Of
exit down the stairways. 1t could not
be ascertained Friday night what mum.
Der of lives, if any, We're certainly lost.
Rumor, however, was rife with loss of
life, which placed the number at not
less chan twenty-five.
Very InflammabIe.
The structure was of an inflammable
character, and was quickly and utterly
consumed In its construction it was a
tinderbox. During the night all was
confusion, and only the injured among
those who escaped were ascertained,
These included Judge s. N. Cooper,
whose legs were broken; Mrs. Volney
Hill, internally injured, and several
other women and children crushed and
crippled.
Russell Harrison Was There,
Among the visitors at the exhibition
was Russell Harrison, who had lust
been shown about the building by Vice
President Burbage, and had remarked
no inf IA oh NJ &c
building and contents, and being assured
that it was being carefully watched,
when the cry of fire was heard. Mr..
Harrison shouted: "Stand still Stay
where you are and pass out orderly I"
His voice was lost in the uproar. He
had seen an infant lying in remote
part of the hall asleep within some rail-
ings, and made heroic effort to force
reached the spot the locality was in
flames.
Partial List of the victims.
Exclusive Of those named above the
casualties SO far as learned are as fol-
lows: -
A. L. Haines, chief hydraulic engineer
of the Fort Worth and Denver railroad,
so badly burned that he died.
A little girl aged Z years, thrown
from window in the second story and
killed,
w. R. Cruce, of New Orleans, fatally
injured.
G. w. Evarts, of New Orleans, fatally
injured.
Mrs. A. E. Hecker, of Elgin, ILL.,, bad
ly hurt.
James S. Davis, of Fort Worth, badly
burned.
George Settler, of the Fort Worth and
Denver road, badly burned.
Mrs. w. A. Wiams, spine injured.
Mrs. Kate Spencer, left arm broke and
badly burned
Miss Leah Couts, of Weatherford,
right arm broken in two places
Mrs Lizzie Grant, of Weatherford,
injured internally.
Bissell Wilson, of st. Louis, rail
road hand, leg broken and injured in
ternally.
Mrs. w. R. Kennedy, of New Orleans,
badly hurt.
E. H. Fudge, of Chicago, jumped
from the third story, breaking one arm
and both legs, and is injured internally.
A Scene of Horror,
Within fifteen minutes of the break
ing out of the fire, 10000 people were in
the grounds. The scene was agonizing.
Men and women rushed frantically from
crowd to crowd looking for loved ones,
in many cases shrieking and crying.
Many ladies tainted The loss will reach
$3.50, 900. The insurance is nominal.
Many of the exhibits were of historical
value, and are not included in this esti-
mate. No estimate can be made of
their value. The Elgin Watch Factory
Military band lost all their instruments
and music, valued at $4,000.
Only Two Deaths.
Up to noon only two deaths have re-
suited from the fire. The deaths were
caused by the jumping of the men from
the windows of the Spring palace, after
they had saved many women and chill
dren.