Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-06
HOT SPRINGS IS
DEVASTATED
BY fire
FIFTY CITY BLOCKS SWEPT BY
FLAMES, CAUSING LOSSES ESTI-
MATED At 100000. .==OvER
$500 PEOPLE H0MELESS.-=AL
BUSINESS At A STANDSTILl.
STEPS ALREADY TAKEN
TO REHABILITATE CITY

TO REHABIL|TATE CITY
Hot Springs. Ark, Sept GA gen
ed valuable aid to weary worker!
among the smouldering ruins of tn,
$6.O00,000 conflagration which swep
Hot Springs last night About 55 city
blocks are in ruin Perfect order pre-
walls, however due to the efforts Of
25O citizen police. The $500 persons
rendered homeless are being cared
for and 1t is probable city authorities
will not call for assistance from th2
state at large.
The light and power company has
provided emergency facilities for the
newspapers and other industries to
resume operations. but the city will be
in darkness for at least thirty days.
At mass meeting today commit
tee was appointed to meet with the
city council to provide immediate fire
fighting apparatus and care for the
homeless.
More than 5000 feet of hose was de-
stroyed last night and many of the
local department houses rendered un-
fit for further duty
Mayor McClendon today praised the
efforts of the local and Little Rock
fire fighters last night, pointing out
that not fatality occurred and that
only four persons were slightly hurt.
An incomplete estimate of the loss
follows:
Park hotel and furnishings, $780,
600.
Public utilities, $250,0OO to 100000.
Southwestern Telegraph and Tele-
phone company, $150,000.
Garland county court house. $780,
600.
Moody hotel. $4,000
Hot Springs high school. s159000
Cooper Brothers livery and trans
fer, $4,000
Central grocery, $4,000.
Iron Mountain freight and passenger
depots and shops, 100000.
billiards. laundry, $4,000.
Peoples laundry, $4,000
Union Street Presbyterian church.
$4,000.
Ozark Sanitarium, $4,000
Zieglar apartments, $65 900.
Bijou Rink, 100000
Woodcock apartments, s35,00O.
Scott Mayer Commission company,
100000.
plunkett, jarrett Grocery 100000
Hot Springs Commission company.
$40 COO.
Eamp Williams Hardware company,
s20,CCO
Fasteurized Milk company. $4,000.
About 125 business buildings, SS0C,
900.
From 625 to 700 residence buildings,
$2.OOo,OOO.
Hot Springs, Ark, Sept. 6.-Stunned
by the extent of the damage wrought
by last nights fire, which swept more
than fifty city blocks here with an es-
timated loss of $6,OO0,000, the people
of Hot Springs today took steps to- I
ward rehabilitation. Mayor McClen- !
Ion accepted Governor Hayes offer OF 7
.wo companies of state militia and or
Tered a mass meeting of citizens for
ater in the day, when 1t will be dec1d-
I'd whether the city will call on out
;ide cities for help. 1t is estimated
bout $500 persons were made home
ess by the fire. The majority of these "
re being temporarily camped in the :.
-icinity of the Oaklawn race track =
nd state fair grounds. =
Grand avenue, leading from the u
urned area to the fair grounds. today "
resented a picturesque sight. Hun o
reds of families with what little they b
aved from the ruins were gathered b
long the roadway, gradually working II
heir way to the camp grounds. The
lilitia will aid these people and guard p;
ne devastated district. d;
There is no danger of water fam tt
le according to the authorities. Even n,
the supply were cut off there are II
umerous cold springs throughout the c,
ty furnishing sufficient water for all ,s
urposes. 1t was announced today =.
lat the city will be without electric
ghts for sixty days.
The Sentinel-Record, the morning at
ewspaper here, barely escaped de- ~
truction by the fire last night, and
id not issue it's regular editions. The 81
ew Era and Daily News, the after IN
BON papers are without power. and GU
nable to publish. Business generally
at a standstill. ~
The fire started in negro cabin at III
80 o'clock yesterday afternoon. and "
owly died out at the foot of west -
ountain, the southern extremity or ~,
OF Springs, at midnight, after reduc' -.
e to smouldering mass of wreck -
,e an area more than a mile in @,
myth and from seven to ten blocks ~,
ide in the eastern section of the city. i. n
In the path of the flames were man. on
acturing houses, hotels, a number
more pretentious residences and We
lblic buildings, which are in ashes tio
1t is estimated that $500 persons TO
e homeless. So far as can be ascer- cir
ined, there were no fatalities and lat