Show fORT WORTH SWEPT BY I fiRE i Six Persons Killed Property Pro perty Loss Estimated at Five I Million Dollars I Fort Worth April 3 Starting In h n a barn presumably from a carelessly thrown cigarette fire this afternoon S destroyed property In tho the southern p portion of oC Fort Worth conservatively valued at two and a half million dol dollars lars Jars nr caused tho the death of oC one person I IJ J 3 J Newton Nowton of oC Krum Texas and ren rea rendered I IS S dered several thousands homeless I The Tho lire fire originated at al Jennings aye ave avenue DUO nue and street in the cen con center center conter ter of oC a fashionable residence district r F I and anti fanned by a stiff sUI wind was be beyond yond ond control within fifteen minutes Spreading to tho south it burned its way wa through 32 blocks and an continued until it had swept through the yards of tho Iho Texas Pacific railroad des deB destroying the railroad buildings and a aE E largo argo amount of rolling stock where 11 1 the fire Ore practically burned Itself out Three church buildings the Broad Broadway Broadway 1 way wn Baptist and Presbyterian and the Swedish Chapel were among the buildings destroyed as aM was the Pres Pros Presbyterian J Sanitarium The patients u of or the latter Institution were all re ro II R nod in safety safet I The Texas 8 Pacific suffered tho th tb largest Individual loss Fourteen lo Io locomotives Iou o ou u were reduced to twisted ff masses of stool steel and iron and several I hundred box cars besides the round roundhouse k house and other buildings of the tho road c v ro destroyed I Fort Worth Tex Tox April 3 Fanned by y a stiff wind a fire which originated L in m a barn at Jennings avenue and 1 street In the Uw southern per por portion peri S i 1 tion of this th is city this afternoon I over an urea area of ten ton blocks block In length k and anil wnm soven In width destroyed prop property erty Nty roughly valued at al more than I and caused the tho death of Jf r q six persons I Thc Tho Th lire which originated In a fash fah fashionable fa h hI residence district was aa beyond he ond I I control within 15 minutes and anti was vas not U checked until dynamite tl was resorted i A to four hours after It started Assistance was rushed r l hell from Dalian I and on special trains but hut the tho speed U of the flames was not nol check checked ed cu until they the had eaten their way vay to ti tithe 1 the Texas and an Pacific railroad resor vallon atlon on tho the east cast On the south Bouth the ii fire was checked checke at tho the Texas S and andl l Pacific passenger depot depol this steel and T stone structure forming a bulwark that 1 saved saed the tl wh l district which I I at af ono one on lime Imo was waB In Imminent danger danser J The Tho Texas and Pacific hound house 1 and 20 engines engine tho the repair shop four lour churches two public Ic school buIld n ings and Walkers sanitarium were de do destroyed Tho other buildings destroy destroyed lIes troy n LJ ed ell wore were residences most of them and andIn Iii n In lit the most exclusive section People living within thin a i radius of or three blocks of or the thi place where the tho fire started hail had no DO time lime to save ie anything A patient I whoso has not been heen learned perished p In Walkers sanitarium and If throe three men were find and bodies hoLlIs burned hurne to cinders In the Sawyer t cr electric plant 11 t Herbert Stack was waH fatally turned burned In Inan Inan inan an endeavor to save sayo his homo home and a Q fireman fell from a housetop and was W 9 killed Rov tIO 11 II O 0 Cowan assistant pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian church Jp Jf missing Tho rho burned district to tonight tonight tonIght night Is being patrolled by b troops to tot J Jt t prevent looting and It Is estimated that families are arc homeless Many m of these have hao gone gOllo to Dallas whore where I shelter offered |