Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13

that CneSc emDeIS SnOuld not De blown into the air and possibly car ried to dwellings unburned.
 Throughout the remainder of Ho- boken all dwellings were crowded to capacity, some of them occupied by as i high as three and four families. i Blankets, mattresses, old carpets, anything were thrown onto porches and on these meager couches could be seen sleeping negroes, most of l them men, but in some places wo- men and little children. Those ne- groes yet awake, talked in low voices. An audible peal of laughter was rarity.
 Negro relief workers reported at midnight that practically all of the sufferers had been cared for for the night by people of their own race. Every house in Hoboken untouched by the flames, was housing double it's capacity. Barns and outhouses were utilized for shelter.
 The Allen Temple church, 1925 Vir- ginia street was converted into sleep l ing quarters and housed many suf- 1 ferers. Clothing was placed in the pews and negroes crawled onto them to spend the night, others position ed themselves in the aisles, families i huddled in corners, all seemed satis- 1 fled place of shelter had been pro- vided for them. None seemed in- clined to recount the excitement of 1 the afternoon.
 Every neighborhood in which the l fire burned was filled with crowds of people, who assisted occupants of burning and threatened houses in removing their furniture and other I household effects. These were dump ed in the streets in most cases, and trucks and automobiles from several of the wholesale houses were tender ed for use in hauling and removing ! furniture from the stricken dis tricts. The crowds and the piled up furniture in many cases hindered the work of the firemen, and this, together with the dust from hurry ing automobiles and other vehicles, and the smoke from the fire, kept them in a continual fog.
 The fire started about 2:30 o'clock and was checked about o'clock. The smoke arose in dense folds and con tinued to smear the sky during the hour and half that the fire burn- ed. Many peaple watched the fire from windows in the Citizens bank building and other tall structures, and were presented an unusual sight, as the tiny appearing houses, touch- ed by the flames, crumpled like so many paper structures. The swarm of the people could be seen, as could the flames, jumping, twisting and turning like livid tongues as they leaped on their way of destruction.
 The fire had it's origin in the home of Thad Felds, negro living at 1905 South Indiana. The houses on either side quickly caught, and with the strong wind blowing to the west ward, the flames soon spread to oth- CT houses in the neighborhood, talk ing g northwesterly course toward the city. The shifting wind played queer freaks, sending the flames coursing first in one direction and then the other, making the work of the firemen, who, until the fire plugs were at their backs at Seventh and Kentucky, were powerless to control the flames, infinitely harder. Calls kept coming into the fire depart ment headquarters all afternoon as the leaping flames would attack houses in one direction and then the other Houses covering about six blocks in all were destroyed.
 Rages Down Indiana.
 The fire took it's, path mainly down Indiana avenue, laying waste houses to the east and west. At tenth ave- nue, between Indiana and Kentucky. the flames jumped clear of five houses, scarcely scorching them. Af- ter two larger houses, occupied by J. B. Clark, Cotton Belt conductor, and A. M. Lee, clerk in the office of the superintendent at the shops, had been destroyed, the flames were checked.
 l All three divisions of the fire de. partment were called out, and for nearly two hours, fought to prevent the spread of the flames, unable to use hose because the district burned lay outside the water district. They exploded one chemical, but consid- cred this too dangerous to try again, because of the crowds, and worked to prevent the spread and check the fire by work on the build ing in its path. At Seventh and Ohio, the firemen had their hardest fight, but succeeded in checking the flames after laying two lines of hose The flames at this point were di- verging toward the oil mills and had they reached there, the damage, both in property loss and in loss of life, would have been exceptionally large, None of the members of the fire figh- ing force received an injury, and on- ly one piece of equipment, twelvc- foot ladder, was lost.
 Rivals 1907 Blaze
 The fire in the eastern part of the city yesterday afternoon, rivalling almost the great fire in the East End in 1707, when 1O9 houses and la number of business buildings were burned, did damage estiA mated last night at about $75,0O0. If was stated hv E;ro CL,,r D..