Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-01
DALLAS HOLOCAUST.
Cropping Through Smoke and
Fire in Search of Air.
HE DIES OF SUFFOCATION.
The County Democracy lndorses Coles Candi-
dacy-A Political White Heat.
Factory Destroyed by Fire-Another
Man Bareley Escapes With His Life.
4 Colored Woman Anxious to
be a Winged Cherubim.
HE DIES OF SUFFOCATION.
a BIG FIRE ATTENDED BY DEATH.

Camp street, known as the Georgia hotel,
was burned, attended with the loss of life
and the serious iniurirs of many of the in
mates of the house The building is q two
story brick, On the ground floor at tho
Lamar street corner was q room in which
E Chamberlain ran g saloon. Next to the
saloon on the Camp street side was lunch
stand. The lunch stand room extended
back as far as the saloon room partition,
and there connected with a room il be
rear OF the building, and which opened f,
LamarStreet. This back room was lars / {
and was used as restaurant aud kitchen
The stairway leading TO the second floor
was il the rear end of the restaurant. The
| second floor of the hotel was cut up into
| small rooms and used exclusively for sleep
| ing purposes. All the partitions in the
| building were wood, and were
EASY PREY FO THE FLAMES.
W. c. Baird, his wife and two children,
| occupied one of the rooms. Mrs. Baird
| had been confined to her room with sick
ness for about two weeks. Her husband
! discovered the smoke, rushed out and saw
| the fire coming up through the floor. He
| went back to the room and awoke his fam
| lily. Mrs. Baird got up from her sick bed
and started for the rear stairway, her dress
| in her hands. Before she reached the
| stairs, the flames broke through the parti-
| ton near the head of the stairs and nearly
| suffocated her. She threw her dress over
| litI Ettu ana Started UONQ Tie Stairs,
| which were enyeloped in fire.
SHE FELL on THE STAIRWAY
! and rolled to the bottom and was carried
| from the building more dead than alive.
| She was badly burned about the hands and
| face, but will probably recover. Her little
| girl Cora, bright child of ten summers,
| left the room by the window and got on the
| iron awning that surrounded the building
| From the awning she started for the ground
| down telephone pole, but wrs rescued by
| policeman and was Uniniured. Her
| brother, Willie, young man, also made his
way from the burning building by the way
Of the awning and jumped TO the ground.
In the jump he badly sprained his back, but
| the attending physician says he Will pull
| through. Ed kreei, also made his way
| from
THE BURNING BUILDING
and was badly burned, and had to jump from
| the second story and was badly but not IA
| tally injured i'll the back. One of his ankles
| was also sprained. Pat Mccarthy
| jumped from one of the rear second story
| windows. alighting on pile of wood He
was badly bruised, but is out this morning.
The tiremen responded quickly TO the
| alarm and succeeded in putting out the fire.
| but not until after the flames had enyeloped
each room on the second floor, burning out
| the stairway and the restaurant below.
| After the
fthE MAS EAIlNbClSaED
| The fremen entered the building and
| on the floor of one Of the rooms was
| found the lifeleSs remains of Jim McAlis-
| ter. The man had evidently arisen from
his bed and had tried to make his way
! from the burning building, but was over
come by the heat and smoke and fell
lfeless to the floor, where he was after
wards found. He was not much burned
and for this reason it is Supposed that
nf
MCAlister is a laborer and has been in
Dallas most of the time for the past eight
years. Men here say that he has worked
in all the principal cities in the Union but
nothing is known of his relatives. He was
about thirty-two or thirty-three years
old and was well liked by his fellow ia
bOrerS.
A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE
were in the building, but all escaped with
| out serious injuries The hotel and res
taurant was run by Henry kaufman. Mrs.
kaufman and her two little girls We're
away from the city on i visit and escaped
the terrible fire. All of the inmates lost
their effects of every kind, not thing be-
ing saved from the building
MIR Kuhlman's loss was $500. with in
surance for 5000 in the British-American.
E. CHAMBERLAIN LIQUOR HOUSE
was badly damaged by water, but his loss
of $500 was fully covered by insurance.
None of the personal effects of the boarders
in the house were insured and are total
loss. The building was the property of j.
W. Barton and was valued at 5000 and in
sured for $4,000. equally divided between
the Niagara, Citizens of ST. Louis and the
American companies.
The origin of the fire is mystery and
will probably always remain SO.
ANOTHER BLAZE.
At 1890 this morning an alarm of fire
| ii
| out promptly, but the fire was too far away
in North Dallas for the department to reach
| it, so it came back to the city. This morn
| ing it was found that the mammoth factory
OF the o. M. Allen Jr., buggy company had
been burned to the ground and was an en-
tire loss. This factory was started last
| November and employed about sixty hands.
and frame. The building contained 125
carriages and 100 carts The building,
| machinery and stock was valued at S25, 600
and insured for $4,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown. S. Spaugh and w. Raj
| fington, two employees of the factory, were
asleep in the building. Mr.. Raffington says
| that the first intimation he had of the fire
was by the dropping of Goals from the trim
| hop above where he was sleeping. Raj
| fington was nearly suffocated by the smoke
and with difficulty left the burning build
| ing Spaugh had his hands badly burned
| IN trying 10 save Ills TOOL cNeSI IrOu Inc
| flames.
WATERS UNION.
| There has been organized and chartered
| in this city what is known as the Colored
| Walters Union, and which is destined to
become an organization Of some importance.
| Riley Virgins, of this city, conceived the
| idea some time ago of the walters banding
| themselves together, and at once started
| the work. The Dallas union has 100 MEM
bers, and Riley Virgins is at once going to
| work to establish unions all over Texas, his
| first point Of operation being Fort Worth
on April 20.
DISCHARGED.
Mary Black, negro woman, has been on
| trial in the city court to-day charged with
keeping house of assignation, but on
some little technicality was discharged, al
though the evidence showed conclusively
| that she ran one of the worst dives in the
| city. and that white girls fourteen and fif-
| teen years old frequented the place for i'm
moral purposes. This house is notorious in
this city, and should not be allowed to exist
to deal forth immortality as it has been do
| ing. Another attempt will be made in the
courts to break 1t up.
ACTION OF COUNTY DEMOCRACY.
The county central Democratic commit
tee held meeting at the city hall this aft
| ernoon to give some expression on the
political fight in the city campaign.
Eleven members were present G. E.
! Gilbert called the meeting to order and
James Maronsy was elected chairman.