The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-16
Frisco Depots, Thirty-five Business Remain After Spec
 tacular Fire
PIPE BURSTS AND
 WATER IS WASTED
Frisco epots, Thirty-fiye Business Houses and Eight Residences Burn Like Kindling-Loss
 May Reach $1OO,O0O

Dora, May 15-(special)-In a spectae- ular fire lasting only an hour and hail. the business street of Dora was swept away by the flames which started In trash pile at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The buildings destroyed include both the freight and passenger depots of the Frisco, the Pratt Consolidated company's commissary, the big stock of the Pal mer Mercantile company, efSlt residences and about S5 stores.
 The total loss is estimated at betTSen s75.00o and s1o0o0o. with practically no insurance. as the rate was so high as to be practically prohibitive. Not more than s10.OOO insurance was carried on the whole of the property lost.
 Fire started, according to belief, in the rear of the Drummond Furniture store, where pile of chips and traah had been collected. stiff wind was blowing to- ward the west, and the flames were soon leaping from building to building Like lsindling the pine structures seemed to melt into ashes.
 The business section faced on the rail- road and the path of the flames extended from the trestle to the brick building of the Dora Banking and Turst company where a fire wall checked the course of the fire, leaving, beside the bank, a stable, hotel and two stores. All the buildings destroyed were frame except the two-story concrete owned by William Turner.
 The origin of the fire is somewhat in hut is that some one was burning trash in the rear of Drummond's store, and high wind prevailing suddenly blew some burning trash under this building and that of Lehman's furniture store, These two places were soon in flames.
 Dora has a fine waterworks system and firemen would soon have had the fire under control had it not been for a mis- hap at one of the plugs
 Several lines of hose were connected, when about seven men had hold of the lever at one plug trying to force it open when the whole plug gave way, broke loose from the main and fell over down the eInbankment. An immense stream of water gushed forth and soon drained the reservoir dry. The high wind and ter rife heat quickly carried the flames from building to building until the entire line of buildings was wiped out.
  cred up and placed in sacks to be carried safely away on the next mail train only to be left at the depot and totally de- stroyed. About 5000 people get their mail here. The following business houses were totally destroyed: Mrs. Jackson, millinery; United States express office, | McClintocks barber shop, Blacks shoe store, Horse Creek Drug company Ray s
 meat market, Duncans barber shop. l I1ftzosrald'c r1fc
 taurant, Longs soft drink stand, Kemp s 1 restaurant Frank Lantrips jewelry store, Tanner. general merchandise; | Poseys barbershop Shaws drugstore, Sellers pool room, Jack vaughn's meat market, Williams general store. pr. Knox, dentist; Pressing club, Gravlet, general store; Lantrip, general store: eight dwellings and some boxcars, with damage also to store and stock of M Rosen. Frisco freight and passenger depots, H. A. Shepherd. store about s20Oo pr. Phillips, two small stores. N. S. Daniel. two small stores occupied by the postoffice and a drug store. Pratt Con solidated commissary. s5e00. Ballinger hotel, owned by Pratt Consolidated, s25oo; J. R. Beard's pool room, $500, c. J. Leh- mans furniture store, s12, 900: W. J. Drum mond, merchandise, 5000; several small buildings, two-story concrete owned by William Turner, s5o00; occupied by Mr. Turner, merchandise, 5000, and Ballinger & Johnson. $2o0o. Four buildings owned by R. H. Calner, s50OO; occupied by Little Drug company, $500; Palmer Mercantile company, s25.0oo; three small buildings owned by w H. Williams: J. w. Drake $500; N. L. Lathrop. $600; three dwellings occupied by T. J. Lee of the Frisco, Sec tion Foreman Howell and Mrs. c. c. Cartwright.
 Shepherd & Drummond carried about 5000 insurance each and Palmer s50O0 The bank building was not damaged