The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-23
The Result of a Disastrous Fire at
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
MANY BUSINESS BUILDINGS LAID
IN RUINS.
Three Men Blow Up a Safe at Thomas
ton, Connecticut, Securing all the
Money in the Vault-Three Hun
dred French Soldiers Killed in the
Interior of Africa.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22.-A special from Hot
Springs, Ark, says: A fire which broke
out here at o'clock this morning de-
stroyed four blocks of buildings. Hot
Springs has no adequate fire depart
ment, and the streets are narrow and
the buildings frame.
Three people are known to have
perished in the fire which started in this
city at O'Clock this morning. Four
large blocks of buildings were soon laid
in ruins. 1t is feared the number of dead
Will be much greater than three, as many
people who lived in the destroyed build
ings are missing.
How the flames started is mystery.
When discovered the fire was Under q
strong headway and it made such rapid
progress that the department could not
do much toward checking it.
The people who roomed in the doomed
structures were caught almost without
warning, and nearly all who escaped did
go in their night-clothes, being unable tc
save any of their effects.
The dead are: Mrs. Clara Sammons
boarding ng-house-keeper, Hot Springs; D.
w. luSs N4O1 L ais, N. IL,
gle Hecox, boarding ng-housekeeper, and
woman whose name is not yet known.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bronson of Macon, Mo-,
were slightly injured in jumping from
the burning building.
The ire originated in the bakery, over
which were furnished rooms kept by
Mrs. Sammon. The other buildings
nois, Missouri, Oak Lawn and Bloom
ington boarding-houses. II. NJ. Hudgins'
residence, Il. l.. Williams three story
brick, Joplin's grocery, L. Randolph's
residence, Ledgerwood's bakery, Ten
nessee Stables, West House and fifteen
cottages. Total loss, $4,000. Very little
insurance.
The fire burned both sides of Ouchita
avenue to Hawthorne, one side of Haw-
thorne to Woodbine, and both sides OF
Orange to QuapaW street.
SIX LIVES LOST.
Hot SPRINGS ark, Feb. 22.-As far
as Is known six people were burned to
death and four and a half blocks of the
residence and business portion of the
city were burned this morning. The fire
originated in the Legerwood bakery. The
residence of II. Nj. Hudgkins and the
bakery we're destroyed, and in ten min
utes the fire had spread to half dozen
and famed by a strong wind from
the north swept everything as tinder be-
fore it. The flames crossed the street to
the Ouachita Hotel, and Oak Lawn was
next burned. Out of nearly 100 houses
burned. in only half a dozen cases was
the furniture saved.
AS far as known there have been six
persons burned to death, but rumors are
rife of others missing, and the fatalities
may be increased 10 a score when the
death roll is completed. Among the dead
are: Mrs. Mary Samminson, 20 years
old, who was living in the Legerwood
building; D. W. Wing of Glen Falls,
n. Y, who escaped the flames at first,
but remembered he had 81 800 in the hotel
and rushed back to get it. Before he
reached the door his clothes were on
fire, and he was burned to death
in the sight of thousands of people.
A man named Hill. one of whose arms
was paralyzed, from Chicago, is reported
as among the dead, as is also an unknown
negro and Miss Maggie Hiscock, house
keeper at the Oak Lawn.
How many are lost remains to be seen.
The total loss by the contlagration will
reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.