The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-05
LOSS ESTIMATED
At TWO MILLION
Five Thousand People Rendered
Homeless by ConIlaara'ion
in For, Worth.
RELIEF FOR SUFFERERS
Fifteen Thousand Dollars Raised al
Mass Meeting Held Sunday.
The Panther City WllI Care
for Her Own.

Fort Worth, Texas, April With
800 acres of the area of the city
swept bare by fire, causing loss of
not less than $2,O00,000 and very
probably $2,500,00o, and with 5000
homeless people, citizens of Fort
Worth yesterday morning faced the
emergency which confronted them
and decided to meet 1t themselves
without the intervention OF outside
aid. Within short time they had
subscribed $4,000 to n relief fund
and expressed the determination to
make It $4,000 before another
twenty-four hours passed
The homeless people have all
been given shelter OF some kind or
fashion, principally In the homes of
friends, neighbors, acquaintances
or even strangers, though some few
have been given direct assistance.
Their belongings are scattered far
and wide, principally under cover,
but some lying exposed to the
weather on vacant lots and in the
railroad reservation under guard OF
some small boy or other member of
the family,
The burned area. blackened
waste, patrolled by ia' Io~se
yellow government mis- are arr
ranged soldier-fashion on the lawn
OF the High school. and this char
red expanse OF what was once a
popuous residence section Is now
peopled, and only temporarily, by
an occasional late property owner
armed with q permit from the au-
thorltles and seeking to recover
something that had been lost
Thousands OF slghtseers from not
only this city, but from surrounding
towns and cities, have thronged the
streets and bridges within sight OF
the ruined district, deferred by the
soldiers from getting closer view
The body OF one man, the sole
victim of the most disastrous fire
In the history of this section OF the
country. lies at an undertaking es-
tabllshment, his relatives In charge.
The injured In the hospitals are all
doing well, and no further fatalities
are anticipated,
Two meetings of citizens for the
relief OF the sufferers were held dur
| Ing the day and n feeling was dis
played that was declared most cred
liable on the part OF the citizenship
The offers OF help from not only the
city, but from people outside were
numerous and freely made, and IT
was evident to those In charge OF
| the movement there will be no strain
connected with the Immediate relief
of the thousands who have suffered
from the fire. It Is considered prob
able that aid will be extended these
people later on to enable them to re-
build their homes, and Mayor Har'
ris makes the statement that the
district will unduestlonably be re-
built. He says that II Will either be
rebuilt In residences or In business
houses, or both.
The excitement has died away;
there IL no actual suffering, and the
situation has resolved itself into
one wherein many have lost the ROOT
| that sheltered them, II not thel'
worldly belongings as we'll but these
are not In actual want, and the
most prominent people OF the CITY
| With tho United Charities, have the
relief work firmly In hand and anti
cipate no trouble, confusion or dif'
| nculty In bringing II to q success