Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-27

| Stewart s. Butt, and owing TO a strong
northwest wind prevailing was not
| checked until O'Clock this afternoon.
and only then after favorable change
in the wind. The scene of the fire was
in the extreme northern end of the city,
and includes the destruction of be-
tween 1000 and 5000 bales of
cotton, eight warehouses, three
cotton congresses, large cotton
seed oil mills. big ice factory, the Nc
bile fertilizer factory. two large wood
and coal yards, three of the river steam
boats and d box factory. There was no
loss of life, although many of the fire.
meD were overcome with heat and
smoke, and MANY narrow escapes from
falling walls occurred. The loss is one
of the most serious ever known here aud
can be put down as 81 900 900. The fire
| department fought maufuiiy AMI were
assisted by many old volunteer tremeu
! in the face OF smoke and fame AMI kept
! ten OF more streams gong, fed from the
! Bienville waterworks. IT 6 O'Clock to-
night the fire is
WELL UNDER CONTROL
| and no fears are entertained for its con-
tluuance. The fire originated ID pile
| of shingles al Stewart Il Butts shngle
! mill at One Mile cr-ek aud soon COM
hlutIiNhlVNA ~ luG Illl "uiCn " dS sbOu
swept away, owing to the strong wind.
a warehouse of shingles belonging to the
same firm was saved through the fire.
men 5 efforts. The flames swept south
ward toward the oil house OF the
Standard oil company, but this was
saved and prevented greater loss
as the Mobile and Ohio freight depot was
near. Goodman s warehouse caught
/ from sparks and soon went up in flames
with its 400 bales OF cotton. High winds
continued, carrying the flames south
west to Browns warehouse, in which
was stored 800 bales of cotton, all of
which was swept away. From there the
fire was communicated to the Selma
warehouse, in which were stored 200
bales, which were
ALL SWEPT AWAY,
the horses being the ouly thing saved
from the ware houses. The Tyler press
adjoining, then caught aud burned. 1t
was unused at this time aud had no cot
ton stored in it. Truewitt's ware house
with its contents, 400 bales of cotton,
was next TO go, none of it being saved.
Beers ware house adjoining caught fire,
but was put out with partial loss.
No cotton was IN ii at the time.
While the warehouses were burning il
was discovered that the Mobile ana
Montgomery depot wharf, saved from
the burning Of the freight warehouse,
was OH fire and soon went. AT the same
time fire WAS discovered in the cotton
seed oil mills, having caught from sparks
from the cotton fire, and soon this large
property was
WRAPPED IN FLAMES
ana burned, burning with rapidity and
ierceness, famed by the breeze, aud
which with its compress, not in use at
present, was used as depot for the Mo-
bile and Birmingham railway. In this
were 400 bales of cotton and u quantity
of freight of the Mobile aud Birm ham
road. The cotton was the only
thing in and about the build
ing saved, and that was slightly
damaged The Mobile fertilizer
mandatory, NJ. Hudson manager, was
next 10 go in the general CONFEDERATION
that was sweeping unchecked, aud which
human aid was pOwerless TO save so
strong and fierce were the flames. Fire
now broke out in the warehouse on the |
wharf of the cotton seed mills 200 feet
long and stored to the roof with cotton
seed which burned rapidly, setting fire
10 the wharf on the south W here there |
was wood yard Of Johnson s. At the |
wharf along here wers tied up the river |
steamboats, Ruth, Mary Elizabeth and |
Jewell, but so fast did the fire travel that /
before they could be moved
THEIR LIGHT WORK CAUGHT
and they were burned TO tine waters |
edge. The flames then leaped on Com
merce street over Congress avenue va |
cant lot to the Cooley cotton compress, !
one of the most modern presses aud owned |
by the Townsend estate, which, together |
with the Emanuel estate and Cooley's |
ware house with their contents of 1000 |
bales of cotton went up in flames. john
son Bros. woodward in tn rear, q large |
quantity of wood and coal and 20 900 |
oak slaves were next to go, in turn COM
muniSating the flames TO the Mobile fac
tory of Gage s. Lyons, and from this
to the Gulf City wood and coal COM
pany's yard at the foot of st.
Anthony street. Here sixty-one bales of
cotton on the wharf, left there ct 10
O'Clock by the steamboat Minnie Lee,
were burned. Here Ut the foot of St.
Anthony street the fire which had swept
four squares on Commerce street from
Beauregard, leaving standing only
the east side of the Mobile
and Montgomery's general offices
and headquarters, aud which had ragged
for five hours, found rest. Fortunately
the wind changed and gave the now al
most exhausted firemen, who had not
ceased their efforts for FIVE hours, al OPP
portunity to return TO the warehouses
and TO save part of their contents. In
their course she flames had spared Mag
nolla warehouse, with 1000; Calhoun
with 1900, and Factors press, with 1000
bales of cotton. The cotton exchange
report Saturday gives the amount of cot
ton on hand in Mobile Saturday at Is no
bales.
THE LOSS.
MOBILE, ALA, Oct. 26.-Mobile suf-
fered severely by fire to-day, the build
ings consumed being a shingle mill three
cotton congresses and five cotton ware
houses with $500 bales of cotton, the
Gulf City oil mill, the Mobile ice fac
tory, three steam boats, eleven loaded
and five empty freight cars, two coal and
wood yards with small amount of
freight and six wharves. The fire was
aided by strong northwest wind, but
had it been point or two nearer north
probably ali of the town would have
gone up in flames. The loss is S545 900,
with about 1925, 600 insurance.