Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-02
VICTIMS OF FIRE.
Six Lives Lost During Blazo at
Hot Springs, Ark.
-Four OF the Victims Arc women-Severnl
Other Persons Badly Hurt-Twenty-
Eight buildings Burned
Loss, $4,000.

Hot SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 23.-At AIS
o'clock Friday morning fire broke out
in the Ledgerwood bakery on Ouachita
avenue, in the southern part of the
city, where boarding houses abound,
and in an hour four women and two men
had been burned to death, six boarding
houses, several storehouses and fifteen
cottages, all worth SIS, 900, had been
swept away.
The dead are: Mrs. Laura Scammon,
Mrs. Henry j. Mcleod, and colored
woman, Austine Stivett.
ID. w. Wing, of Glens Falls, N. Y,
who escaped the flames at first, but re-
membered that he had 1900 in the
hotel, rushed back to secure it, Before
he reached the door his clothing was
on fire and he burned to death in sight
of thousands of people.
Mrs. Maggie Hiscock, housekeeper at
the Oaklawn, ran out from the rear
door sheet of flame, and shrieking,
sank down before help could reach her
An unknown negro was also burned
to death.
Mr. and Mrs. G. III. Brownson, Of
Macon, Mo-; Mrs. Peacock and others
were injured, though none danger
ously.
There was strong wind from the
north which famed the flames, but
prevented them from moving in the di-
rection of the principal business part
of the city where the big hotels and
lighthouses are located. The streets
covered by the fire are Ouachita, where
it originated, Sealey, Malvern, Wood
Ebine and Orange.
The Ledgerwood bakery was frame
building in the second story of which
Mrs. Scammon had furnished apart
ments to let. Charles Ledgerwood
first saw the flames. and in his efforts
to extinguish them neglected to warn
the people in the neighborhood.
Nothing was heard of Mrs. Sc3mmon
until the fire was over, when her
bones were found in the ashes of her
house. Mrs. Mcleod was guest of
the La Clede boarding house. She was
aroused and with her husband started
out of the house, but before reaching
the door, remembered some jewelry
she had failed to save, and re-
turned for it. against the advice
of her husband. When she started
back she found her way blocked by the
fames. Her husband tried to reach
her and almost lost his life in the un.
successful effort. She endeavored to
rush through the flames, but fell down
in their midst and perished. The re-
mains of the colored woman were found
in Il partly saved room in the same
house.
The buildings burned are twenty.
eight in number.
There are fifteen cottages of an ag-
gregate value of SEQ, 900. The board
ing houses destroyed are the Ouachita,
Illinois, La Clede, Missouri and Bloom
ington. Each of these was worth
losses are the L. Randolph resi-
.dence, worth $4,000; the Tennes
see stables, the West house, the
latter worth $1,000; E. Joplin's grocery
So, 200; +. L. Williams, store and build
ing, $4,000; Ii. NJ. Hudgins residence
100000 There are at least 800 men
women and children driven to other
quarters for lodging by the destruction
of the boarding houses, and most o.
them lost all their clothing.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. GA spe
.cial from Gadsden, Ala, tells of two
people being burned to death. Mrs
Mary Burton was discovered by two
of her children, lying on the
floor, her head and shoulders
lying in the fire and her en-
tire body enveloped in flames. Mrs
Burton was subject to epileptic fit
and it is thought was attacked while
she was sleeping and fell in the fire
A small child of Katie Fitzgerald fel
into the fire and its head was so badly
burned as to cause its death.
RnINELANDER, Wis, Feb. 23.-Th,
residence of l.. d. Hayford was de
stroyed by fire Friday morning at
O'Clock and child aged 6 years wa
burned to death. The older childrei
tried to take the unconscious child to
window, but were unable to do so
They jumped to the ground and rouse'
their mother on the first floor, but tn
roof fell before they could save tn
little one.