The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-24
BIC fire Loss
At DALLAS, TEXAS.
Property Worth 100000 Is
Destroyed by Flames in
the Southern City.
PLACE BLAME ON PYR0MANlACs
Illinois Man Fatally Injured by Falling
Iron In Blaze at Kansas City, which
Causes Loss of Observation-Disclosures
tions In other Places.

Dallas, Tex, April 21.-Four fires,
starting in different sections of this
city, and believed to be of incendiary
origin. destroyed property estimated to
be worth 100000, on which there is
an estimated insurance of SITE, 900. Five
persons were hurt, two perhaps fatal
ly.
The first fire started in the large
printing plant of Dorsey Brothers.
which occupied an entirely new build
ing 100 by 200 feet, three stories high,
and which was filed with modern
printing machinery, paper and sta
tionery stocks, bank and Office furni-
ture, and typewriters carried for
manufacturers agents. The loss in
the Dorsey fire is stated to be 5000, 600,
insured to the full underwriters limit.
which is 100000. The plant was the
largest of the kind in the South. The
establishment was burned out four
years ago and had been rebuilt and
opened about two years. Dorsey
Brothers say they will rebuild at once
While the Dorsey fire was in full
progress and more than half the de-
partment of the city was fighting it, a
second alarm announced fire on
Lamar street. near the agricultural
implement district. The wind blowing
from the south saved the implement
district and railroad property adjoin-
ing from destruction. Twenty build
ings were almost destroyed, about one
half of them being second-class bust
ness-houses and dwellings,
About dozen smaller manufacture
ing establishments were also destroyed
losses running from $1,000 to $4,000
each. The dozen frame cottages used
as dwellings and boarding houses We're
destroyed, but part Of the contents
was saved. These losses are estimated
at $4,000.
Chief Magee of the fire department.
was overcome by heat in one of the
buildings and rescued by the police.
He remained unconscious several
hours, but is reported to be out of dan
ger His 5-year-old son fell from a
second-story window and received in
juries which. it is feared, will prove
fatal.
William Spur, a member of No. 3
engine company, was struck in the
face by falling debris. His condition
is critical James Robinson OF engine
company No. and James Roe of
chemical No. were overcome by heat
and smoke, and rescued by the police.
They are reported out of danger.
While the Dorsey and Lamar street
fires were in progress fire broke out
on Fisher lane, in South Dallas, fully
two miles away. Four dwellings were
burned. Insurance agents claim this
fire was incendiary
At Nacogdoches Texas, six brick
store buildings, frame hotel and two
dwelling houses burned. Losses are
estimated at 100000 to $4,000 with
two-thirds insurance.
! CHILD BLOWN FROM FIRE ESCAPE.
Explosion of Gas Causes Father to Lose
His Hold on the Little One.
Chicago, April 21.-While fleeing
from fire in the Monterey apartment
building, IS and 81 Thirty-ninth street,
Alice Grimstead, who was clinging to
her fathers neck on fire escape, was
blown from his grasp by an explosion
of gas and dashed to death on the
stone tagging fifty feet below. The
father had another child under his
arm. whom he tightly held, and al
though severely burned both escaped
with their lives. A dozen or more oc-
cupants of the building, a five-story
structure, had thrilling escapes. Deeds
bf heroism were performed by many
persons, brother rescuing brother and
sister saving the life of another. Men
who were on the street rushed into
the building and saved the lives of
several children who were running
panic-stricken through the halls. The
building itself was damaged $15,OO0
and the aggregate losses to the ten
ants will be $4,000.
Kansas City Has $4,000 Fire.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 21.-Fire
visited the southwestern part Of this
city, laying waste a section Of dwelling
houses almost quarter Of mile
long and block wide, and doing dam
age to the amount of $4,000. John
Slime of Quincy, ILL.,, a spectator, was
fatally injured by falling piece of
iron and Edward Bennett, a fireman.
was overcome by heat.
About fifty dwelling-houses were
destroyed and sixty more families rem
dered homeless. A high wind, amount
ing almost to gale, was blowing, and
the flames spread with alarming rapid
ity. Burning embers were blown more
than half mile. Afterthr hours hard
fighting the fire was under control,
Many persons lost all their belongings.
Much furniture and other property
was destroyed after having been piled
in supposed places Of safety.