The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-19
BREAKs OUT IN THREE PLACES
Incendiary Fire Entirely Destroys tn,
Town of Malvern, Ark.

Incendiary Fire Entirely Destroys the
Town of Malvern, Ark.
Malvern, Ark, July 1S.-The entire
town was destroyed by fire at O'Clock
this morning. Only three houses were
left standing. The loss will aggregate
$780, 900.
| The town Of Malvern is at the junction
Of theHot Springs railway. Malvern
was a little town Of 5000 inhabitants,
the business portion Of the place being
clustered around the railroad station.
AN this section was destroyed.
Only a small portion Of the loss is
covered by insurance. The burned bull
dingS include the railway depot, two
hotels. the bank and all principle bust
ness houses Of the place. The fire Is
without doubt the result Of plot TO de-
stroy the town. The blaze broke out
about midnight in three different places
and as there was no apparatus, the fire
burned itself out Four men are I'M
der arrest, charged with starting the
fire.
The report that a negro was iynched
this morning proves erroneous. No
one was lyncifed actually, but a white
tramp came near forfeiting his life in
an endeavor to fitch money from the ex-
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that for the consideration of $500 he
would reveal the identity of the fire.
bugs. He was promptly answered with
the remark that ne would divulge the
information at "a more reasonable figure.
Somebody procured a rope and the
crowd seized the tramp and proceeded
to string him up to force the Informal
ton from him, but he then protested
that he knew nothing about the crime
and begged piteously for his life. He
and pal were then locked up. Every
tramp or suspicious character found
around the town was promptly arrest
ed. Four men, two white and to negroes
are believed to have ben implicated in
the crime and 1t seems that they went
about their work in a systematic man
ner. The fire was first started in a cot
ia ge in the suburbs about / o'clock last
night. The blaze attracted the atten-
ton Of the people but no effective efforts
were made to extinguish 1T, the torch
was applied to the business portion of
the city in several places simultaneously
and before the people were hardly
aware of it the whole town was in flams.
When the fire had burned itself out,
the only business house left standing
was that occupied by Bergen's store.
livery EFFORT is Delng maze 10 apprenenQ
the incendiaries and if positive evidence
against any of the men under arrest
can be secured there is hardly any doubt
that they will be lyncted, If not even a
more horrible punishment be meted out
to them
Little Rock, Ark, July 1S.---Sheriff D.
c. Fitchugh of Hot Springs county to-
night brought to the Penitentiary here
Eugene Ingraham, A Miller, and A. c.
Williams. three men arrested at Nal
vern on the charge OF being the fire bugs
who put the torch to that town last
night. Ingraham and Miller are white
and Williams is a negro. Williams
confessed implicitly in the crime and
implicated the two white men. He says
it was done for the purpose of plumber
and that had they not been frightened
away a good haul would have been
made.
1T PREYED ON ANTON'S MIND
Bohemian Who Was in the Logan Wreck
Suicides at Omaha
Omaha, July 1S.-Anton Ziskousky. a
I'LL