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Show CARELESS TTE SMOKER CAUSES GREAT CONFLAGRATION Fire Starts in Center of Fashionable Residence District and Ragea Until Thirty-two Blocks Are Burned Over. Fort Worth, Texas. Siarting in a barn, persumably from a carelessly thrown cigarette, fire Saturday afternoon after-noon destroyed property in the southern south-ern portion of Fort Worth, valued at from $2, 500, 000 to $3, 000, 000. caused the death of at least one person, J. J. Newton of Kruni, Texas, and rendered ren-dered several thousands of persons homeless. The fire originated at Jennings avenue ave-nue and Petersmith street, In the center cen-ter of the fashionable residence district, dis-trict, and, fanned by a stiff wind, was beyond control within fifteen minutes. Spreading to. the south, it burned Its way through thirty-two blocksl and continued until it had swept through the yards of the Texas & Pacific railroad rail-road buildings and a large amount of rolling stock, where the fire practically practical-ly burned itself out. Three church buildings, the Broadway Broad-way Baptist, Presbtyerian and the Swedish chapel, were among the buildings destroyed, as was the Presbyterian Pres-byterian sanitarium. The patients oi the latter institution were all removed re-moved in safety. Thousands helped In an effort to rescue household goods, but their efforts ef-forts were to little avail because the wind was blowing a gale and carried the flames for blocks ahead of the actual ac-tual conflagration. The fight was largely centered at the depot of tho Texas & Pacific railroad. Horses and buggies laden with refugees re-fugees were cut off by flames and had to be abandoned in the streels, . I , , |