The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-02-21
HOUSTON SWEPT
BY ANGRY FLAMES:
Estimated Value Of Property I)e-
stroyed Is Five Million
Dollars.
HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS
Famed by Furious Gale the Flames
Spread Rapidly Industrial
Plants and 200 Homes
Totally Destroyed.
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Houston, Texas. Feb. 2I.-A
score of persons injured, but none
seriously, a property loss OF ap-
proximately 100000 and nearly
two thousand people rendered
homeless, is the story of fire
! which broke out in the fifth ward
of this city at one O'Clock this
morning
Starting in section that was
largely inflamable and famed by
| a furious gale the fire spread rapid
! ly and within short time a number
lof industrial plants and hundreds OF
homes were In ashes. 4
| The flames leaped from house to
house and enveloped factories with
| lightning like rapidity.
In their mad race for life men
land women seized their children
land fled to the streets in advance OF
1.-THE pursuing demon. So fact and
furious was the encroachment OF
1.-THE flames that In some OF the burn
ito arise frosn their beds and MS
with the rest TO places Of safety AZ
fthe flames advanced an army o.
might clad men, women and chill
ldren marched before 1T, until final
Fly the homeless we're compelled tic
go behind the flames to find places
OF refuge.
In the factory district $4,000
bales of cotton, in warehouses. were
burned, besides a number of fac
tory enterprises. The burned area is
lr p hell II, ut 40
and one and half miles long
The fire had it's origin In two
story frame structure located on
HARDY and Opelousas streets and
used as hotel. From there 1T
quickly spread to feed store and
lfrom thence to three large framo
buildings used for boarding houses.
THE Star and Crescent hotel, a
three story brick structure, was
next among the destroyed buildings
4 Other heavy losses were:
McFadden Southern Compress
land Warehouse company.
Dew Brothers Syrup Mill,
Houston Liggett Lumber COM
tpany.
Rogers Paint company.
Hudson Pencil factory.
Ed II. Harrell Lumber company,
Including mills and yards, covering
three blocks.
Standard Compress.
Cooperative Manufacturing COM
pany.
Acme Mill.
St. Patrick's church and school.
The Industrial and the South
western rice mills were destroyed,
the two plants being valued at
100000.
Forty-five thousand bales of cot
ton in the Cleveland compress and
McFadden Warehouses were des-
ltroyed, estimated loss s2,25o,e0o.
There was no cotton stored In the
warehouse at the Stand lrd COM
press. which was destroyed.
Hundreds of men, who were en-
ployed at the rice mills and by the
several lumber companies and COM
n're -es, are thrown ont IT nploy-
In ast
The plant of the Houston Packing
company was slightly damaged
The fire was raging In tive
blocks within one hour after it was
first discovered.
a considerable quantity OF cedar
stored at the plant of the Hudson
, Pencil factory burned with such
, fury and caused such intense heat
} that the fire fighters were driven
} back ~ the bluff above the bayou
, Buffalo Bayou, a narrow stream
) was the scene Of a battle roya
) against the flames. Fire leaped tht
, bayou in places but 1t was here tha
) the flames were finally checked af
} liter seven O'Clock this morning.
) Fully two hundred and fift!
; homes were burned during the con
; fiagration.
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