The Green Forest tribune., 1909-04-09
LOSS IS NEARLY TWO MILLION DOLLARS-MANY MANUFACTURING PLANTS DESTROYED
 TWENTY LOCOMOTIVES LOST
FIVE HUNDRED FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS
Dallas, B Miles Away, Sends Fire Department
 to Aid Ft. Worth, and is Herself Attacked by a Fire Fourteen Blocks Burned

Fort Worth, Tex-Within the space of three hours Saturday after noon, one of the best sections of the Residence district of this city was laid waste by fire, one life was lost, six persons were seriously injured, a | property loss of approximately S1,- 100000 inflicted and about 800 fami- lies rendered homeless.
 The fire started in a barn on the corner of May and Tucker streets oil the South Side, and famed by gale, which at the time reached the veloci- ty of 50 miles an hour, swept north east to the Texas and Pacific railroad and east to the Santa Fe tracks. The burned area is approximately one and half miles long and half a mile wide.
 Three hundred and nine residences were completely destroyed, four lum- Der manufacturing plants, the Texas and Pacific car shops, the Sawyer Electrical Manufacturing plant and live large warehouses, in addition to three churches and one sanitarium, were the business concerns of impor- tarce destroyed.
 J J. Newton, recently connected with bank in Fort Worth, lost his 7sife in the fire. His body was found 3 the yard of his residence. but just 2 how he came to his death is un- known.
 The Broadway Presbyterian and ! the Broadway Baptist churches, both handsome structures, were burned, as was also the Reimers Memorial chap el Attached to the Broadway Baptist church, and the Swedish Lutheran church.
 \ The Texas and Pacific railroad was r the heaviest loser. Is roundhouse y repair shops, 20 engines, coal chutes, n etc., were burned. the total loss be- r ing estimated by General Manager Thorne at $160,000.
 Many stories are told as to how thu fire originated, but the most gen. i@erally credited account places the blalne upon a party of boys smoking cigarettes in a barn.
 n The extreme dryness of the build vtn8s after drouth and high wind, all efforts by the combined :, fire departments of Fort Worth and Dallas to check the fire unavailing, Hand oEly the open space about the e bTexas and Pacific tracks saved the rsbusiness district from destruction. The burned district is part of 'IV th8 hest residence section of Fort nd Worth, and in addition to the scores Mnagnificent residences, also in-
 ,lud&d the Texas and Pacific round. ent jpuSb and many substantial business
 md plants, the latter efnA Aalong the railroad tracks. ,U WH6feic efforts were made to con a Eo{&3&e fire. Tho entire fire depart
 sof Fort Worth and North Fort HIT were promptly on the scene ss se's M { response to telephone appeal, los llas fire department sent de- ra e' f4f$nt which came by a special mes $sy5ver the Texas and Pacific in II II m, m 7( lime and rendered valiant ser add t< Hardly had the Dallas firemen HGd their work here, when they ss'' &4d an urgent call to return azz Is fire threatened a consider ..v l &Eeticn of their home city. They b. bromptly hurried aboard their K l4fj6f train and rushed back. ,,,,sr Tf&1l hundreds of homeless people hcltered by friends and char lie itI r btganizations and prompt meas factr Ire taken to extend relief. At LOU 631test of the mayor, Governor
 &l ordered out two companies we militia, which, aided by the - z1Snd sheriff's force, patrolled
 6xhed district and kept out 9ln[