Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-21

a.
y III fire in her history.
,sir,y minutes $4,000 worth of
~ was wiped out of existence.
n ,reat drug house of IL. w. VIII
y 1 co. is an absolute wreck.
,isht was grand but terrible one,
- witnessed by thousands of peo-
N crowded in and about the city
IA an the streets for blocks away.
|, "a wind was blowing and it looked
! A. entire block would be burned,
/, ,,,a A catastrophe was expected by
/. N Of ten people who saw the con
.uton. ,,,,tn,,c,
drpr house proper was Il mag
y, t5nr.story building, 5OxlOO feet,
~ from Houston to rhrockmorton
II was built of white limestone
r,essed lhrlck with large arched
h ars extending from the second to
auth story. The building was COM
t.s,ely new one and was among the
4 fractures in the city.
,i,ining the main building was %
. 'front.', one-story brick, also owned
M hrm, which was filled with Holt
\ gods.
sdd from the main building by
Irsuorton street was a twostory
"A warehouse, In which was kept
,,,es OF highly combustlble nature,
4 As oil, yarnish and paints. This
tilms was the only one that escaped
I,rction.
aediately north of the main build
4 rss twostoIy brick, the property
Iierney, and north of that four
's5ry bricks owned by G. 10. Trice.
M 1880 o'clock when a man pass
n Houston street, between Tenth
4 Eleventh., noticed smoke issuing from
snlOws Of the third story and only
1 n seconds later a small blaze, which
IN grew into sheet of flame, lenped
\ the windows and burned through
. wL
A u tirm was given quickly, and a
80 and finally general alarm soon
1 ut Al the apparatus and every mem
II I liz department to the fire
4 h tbs time the building was ON fire
4 y vi to sidewalk and Chief Celia
4 Nlif that nothing could save the
h lslnf " stock devoted all the energy
Il d,partment to cOnfning the tire
4 rAt he four walls Of the main build
4 \, SEll lines Of hose were laid,
i W i hnnt and rear of the building,
VI isher line was carried to the
A M 4 n Nerney building to protect
n b mn " flames as they leaped above
7 N " fn wall. His efforts were sue
4 nztl Nd all the damage done the Tier
li9ling resulted from the fall of
I'm frions Of the heavy north wall.
I Tint the pressure was not good, hut
4 y rally Effected nothing. for all the fire
rEehis in Texas could not have pre-
~ Tie loss of 81 Of property de-
% last night.
I've minutes Tho building end stock
~ Ffapped in swirl of fire fed every
uinuits by barrels of whisky, which
III with sound resembling dis
einnonading. In thirty minutes the
lntton was complete, and portions
y walls falling in beam TO smother
iane.
v snail building ON the south was
WED by the crushing weight of Il
,eeioh Of the south wall. which
ned the rafter bearing the roof as
~ bad been pipe sloms. A second
IN falling carried with il burning
gs which set fire to the debris and
~ goods, which are virtually a to-
-.
AZ hour It was all over and the
drug honse in North Texas was
PAP Of ruins.
THE LOSSES.
Gazette representative saw Or. II.
IA Villains soon after his arrival at
q, and from him obtained the facts
" to losses and insurance. DR..
1as eaid he had been sick for two
H. pest and had only come down TO
Y when word was brought to him
vas his establishment. He said
~ not the remotest iden how the
xqnated, that all the goods of a
3g hhamnable character We're not
~ 4 the building where the fire
nain building cost over 10000,
= completely destroyed. On this
NJ there was insurance of $4,000.
anlary ], 1894. the stock inyen-
LII thout coo mo thar,
n ans,. T"oiVuo, nv I'm 49, ~" ~
n i mil ~ OF gpoqs n NV psen ~ =,
, ,nlll tne STOCK STOCK IN IN the ~ store laS.
IN ''.''NeI Sluo'UN' rms Is =
~ The Insurance carried Oh
~ $4,000. .-oo
-sNory brick cost SloOoi no IN
f%pi goods In one-story brick
N Insurance
/. aerney building is damaged t
lent Of $3.50, and damage Z
" N this building by water is
NV NV
IN for commencing business i'm
~, said the loss was so over
~ that he had not yet consid
ri nat be would do.
" upper story of the building nortl
a,als house furnished rooms werl
z Mrs, u. L. Armstrong. She sal,
AID her two grandchildren la,
= ~ in the evening and were no
u ARMSTRONG was greatly excite,