Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-30
Over Three Thousand People
Homeless Wanderers.
FIVE LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST
And Other People Were Inured--MOuey Loss
s5,85O,0OO, Far as Known.
Business Men Meet and Raise $4,000 for
the Poor Suiicrers--The Mayor Says
Aid WIN 30 Appreciated BY
the City.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, oct. 2e.-when
the sun came up out OF Lake Michigan
this morning he shed no light on the
southeastern portion OF Milwaukee,.
There was brighter light there than
he could furnish and 1t had been
there ten long hours and was
there still when old Sol had done
his days work and gone TO rest
These ten hours were big with the tate
of Milwaukee. In them was crowded
the destruction of what will take rs
many months to rebuild and much OF
the work wrought by the flames can
never be repaired.
At twenty minutes Of . o'slock hist
night an OH barrel exploded from some
unknown cause in the store occupied
by the Union oil company, 2I5 East
Water street, and the fire that ensued
swept over thirteen blocks OF business
houses and residences, over 300 build
ings in all, and caused loss OF four
lives and destroyed property valued at
5000, 900.
II is now entirely under control but
the ruins in places are burning hercely,
and II will be several days before the
last spark of fire is extingulshed.
When the fire broke out in the store
of the oil company the majority OF the
engines Of the FIRE department were
ut work In other parts OF tho
city, there being at the time
no less than three fires, separate
fires burning in different parts OF the
city. These fires were comparatively
insignificant in themselves but the part
they played in the fire tragedy which
desolated so large portion OF the city
L gs,ay.g,YstuUf fHhA annimaQ
were DELAYED so long by these that
a was fully twenty minutes after
the first oil barrel exploded
that the first engine srattled up to tho
fire In East Water street and 1t was
forty-five minutes before the fire was
confronted by the force thought 10 DO
sufficiently large to hold 1t in check
to say nothing Of subduing IT. Tho
firemen fought well, however, and
within an hour had crowded tho fire
back, and thought tho day was their
own
At 8.40, however the roar Of another
explosion was heard and the fire leaped
forth again with fury beyond what it
had shown before.
FREY SHAFTS
found their way once more TO the east
side OF East Water street and from that
time on the curtain was fairly up for
the tragedy.
became convinced the city fire depart
ment was powerless and asked for as
sistance from outside. He at once sent
word TO the Acknowledgement Of the state
as king for militia and messages TO
Waukesha, Oshkosh, Kenosha, Racine
and Chicago asking for help. Prompt
replies were received in every In
stance that the looked for aid was
coming.
At 10 o'clock the Kenosha company
was at work on the flames, the com
pany from Racine having preceded 1t
eomewhat. Oshkosh and Waukesha
came in little later and the Chicago
contingent consisting Of four engines
and forty men arrived AZ 1925. IL
was no fault OF theirs, however, that
they aid not arrive sooner.
The response to the call for militia
svas aa pfompt as the various ERE de-
nartinents and altogether over 200 mon
armed with muskets and bayonets fixed
were assigned 10 duty. Their
work was principally guarding
property in the Third ward, but an OPP
portunity was offered Of proving their
value in such an emergency. Private
Winters, Of the Rust guard and BROTH
en- performed heroic act.
From little frame building
or Buffalo street the soldiers thought
they heard sounds Of distress issuing,
and when the daring soldiers ventured
in the walls we're ready to fall. In
few minutes the brave young men came
forth from the burning heap bearing
between them
WOMAN AND TWO RABIES.
They had slept unaware OF the doom
ahoat them aud would certainly have