The Springdale news., 1913-09-12
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Waste. 2.000 people homeless. is the stoly of the most disastrous eonflagration which ever visited this city. this afternoon and tonight
 At 11s3o tonight the fire lad bufned is way practically 70 the loot ot West mountain, sweeping a district seven 10 ten blocks in width, from Hot Springs mountain on the east to West mountain, disfan e of n.ls and a haf
 Human Ingenuity and mode fire apparatus availed nothing against the reslstle9s force Of the flames, famed bg shifting gale which carried =itfrst In one diree- ton and then n another, threaten Ing the entire city at mes.
 Tonight Hot Springs y*evs quIte awe such $ eae of desola- ton a5 | never Witnes ed before Aided by the Little Rock Fire De paftme Tt. the lo al Ire fighting force hattled with the flames for almost lo hours. fighting hope les battle at ey.ry stage and sue eeedng only in diverting tie course of the fife from the prin ipal busi- ness section and the Reservation
 Early in the evening Mayor Me Lendon ordered all the saloons in the city closed and called meet ing Of citizens at the city hall.
 Citizens Keep Order.
 A police patrol of 250 men was sworn in to guard the fire-swept during the night Everything is orderly and quiet At midnight the fire was practically under control. All of the homeless had been cared for temporarily and only the heavy 1 nancial loss remained to be faced.
 So far as known at midnight, there were no fatalities CT serious injuries Several firemen were ov- ereome with the heat and smoke, as were also few citizen volunte CTS but aside from these slight injur- les nobody was hurt.
 Two Big Hotels Burn.
 The Park and Moody hotels wer4 the only on de-troyed Of the very aarge hotels Several hotels Of ies.ssT -canactty were burned and humber qt room hou=es. The bufel oapa, ity Of the resort has not -lffer. heavily and praeteaIy all of the ba5uea structures MI #le re- built at once
 Business was practically suspend ed ln the e.ty tonieht. except that necessary to provide immediate wants Tor those who suffered finan- cial and homa loss The alck of light and power prev nted the pub lcation of newspapers and it vii be another 24 hours before tempo rary equipment can be secured.
 General Manager Dillon of the Public Utilities he plant of which was destroyed states that tempo rary light and powir wilshe sup piled within 90 days and that in 94 da#s tHe utilits will he working to their eanacity again The natural gas supply vas not iatartered with
 Dcouth Made Finder Of Homes.
 Under ordinary conditions the fire would have been extinguis q with slight loss. but the dfouth of the last two months had made the buildings so inflammahle and strong wind blowing from the north west soon carried the fire 70 a thickly populated business and resi- dence section on Malvern avenue, where it spread nearly a half mile in width, and sweeping south swept through a section of the city more than mile in length, destroy ing hundreds of the buildings, in cluding some of the principal busi- ness houses of the city
 Among the large buildings de- stroyed within the space of an hour a,l = ba1f ulara tha Park hotel wat