Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-10
TOWN Of 25. 600
PEOPLE LAID IN
RUINS BY FIRE
Mushroom City, Which Grew
UD Near Du PO1t Powder
MiIl Destroyed Boy Shows
Greatest HefOism

.s, vozs.-a 8aas-tl arfrl.l ,r.stp eissI
rttrrsbure Nu. pcU. Huprn 30
Ya ihe boom town 80 $1,000 found.
ra bl tbe Dupont Powder company
virtually WIS DESTROYED ht frc late %.
daY At j. m tic flames stan wcrg
uncontrolled hut % uas said iherD wHs
little left t9 huru bob the town and
toe eanpanys poNder mill some dis
lance away was not believed to De- iH
danger The blaze started in reese
tauIant
I.os. Estimated az $4,000 900
The financial loss estimated
roughly az t3001.0oh and thousands
No homeless families tonight were
taacn 90 Richmond and Petersburg On
special trains
Ncatly every building in the town
which had sprung up with scnsa-
uonal rapidly suggestive of the west
cu mining settlements ut the sixties.
wits made of wood A high wind aid
I'D the spread OF the names and within
a few minutes after they were discov-
cred several blocks were on fire
Firomen rushed from Richmond and
Petersburg bui were p0werloss d
check the confederation
ono Looicr Il IynChed
Six companies Of state troops were
sent 10 prevent rioting and lootinE
among the frantic leborcrs and their
families unc negro caught footing
was iynched 40 other lifc was lost
az result Of the fire according 10 rec
ports reaching here
Tonight eth more troops we're sent
60 the stricken town ana reports iudl-
Gated that the military authorities had
the situation well Ia hand
4 local militia company tonight wax
placed Ia the downtown section of
Petersburg 60 aid in preserving order
1mone the thousands pouring IN from
the burned town All saloons here
were closed at o'clock, The Peters
burg city council held q special session
t1 Dlan relief measures and the city's
churches were opened as sleeping
places for The homeless.
Fire started IN Restaurant
The fire started az LAS o'clock this
afternoon The alarm WAS giVcn by
Adam Drum. an oleven-yeat-old b7y,
who saw smoke coming from the roof
OK thpc-atory restaurant building
ne rushed into The building and soon
nftcrward appeared at trout window
on the second floor with an infant IN
his arms lie shouted TO the crowd
below to hold a blanket A bed GOV.
rrlna WAS used as "a life net and the
the boy leaped into H. Neither h. nor
the infant was hurt.
The boy then entered building
next door and brought out q Heeond
infant this time from the first floor.
that had been len 10 burn by Il par
Dnts
Mothers aud fathers with infants ia
their arms fled from the frame build
ings that were huwicdW thrown to-
gethor during the summer 70 accom-
MEDIATE the Dupont employees. ana
several were injured
Honewell until two months ago
WAS q wide open town ana there had
been much trouble In maintain order
Many men carried guns 49, in the old
days of the west
Everywhere amonA the ruins toe
night lawyers doctors business men
aud laborcrs were mtiing on the goods
they managed 10 save with rifles
actoea their knees on Buns 40 their
belts
Tho stores. hotels restaurants. Of
lice huildmg and other structures de-
atroyed viii probably number COO
There vas little Insurance
mcendiarism Suspected
There we're persistent reports to-
nisht that the llre had been started 10y
an lnoondtory VINO might have been
the urcomplipe of an omploNe of Che
Dupont faetop arrested last night
Officials Of the uowdrr company IL.
luapd 10 discuss The inccudmry theory
30 The arrest but H. Nas said the man
in custod, had aroused The suspicion
81 the private police force which for
months has kept close patrol ahout
he plant
The nesro Enohed was round ear
rana Oft clothms Wom pile in front
at burning store lie was seized az
once by plr} ~ citizens aud huf-
iled into side street After m"-
mcuts consultation rome was placed
atout bs urph and ne vus hanged to
a tree
Tho towns IVA banks were burned
Officials ~ each had CON idcablc
trouble with tonpp l0horers vino
uumi.alr i,al,scd cine burning huid
ugs 300 witch their non'' was dcpos-
trd 81 one bank thc cashier had 10
drive tbr frcu7,a wen from On, hutld'
4HE NTH revolver
a blnR utlicrt said toni ht mat all
thc cash ana papers ot the hunb had
bern brought to petruhutl und dr-
posted ln taults hero