Abilene Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - August 15, 1911, Abilene, Texas City EAMon ABILENE DAILY VOLUME ABILENE TEXAS TUESDAY AUGUST 15 1911 NUMBER 294 BLAZE THIS AFTERNOON Jf National Packing Loss Also Complete Four Freight Cars Burned Two Frame Buildings Included in Loss Destruction to Property Estimated at Wooten Insurance Burton Lingo Company Covered Origin Has Not Been Determined Shortly after one oclock this afternoon flames sup posed to have originated from an explosion of ble Matter caused a property loss conservatively esti mated at which is partially covered by insurance Losses are as follows j H 0 Wooten Grocery Company building and al contents including contents of cold storage property loss estimated at insurance Lumber Company three sheds and two offices including all contents loss estimated at of insurance not stated but fully covered W T Wilson Transfer Company building and con tents destroyed property loss between and amount of insurance not known National Packing Company office in Wooten building all old papers fixtures and 2500 cases of canned meats valued at one thousand dollars property loss estimated at Texas Pacific Freight Cars loaded with canned goods and salt for H 0 Wooten and cement for Burton Lingo Company amount of loss not estimated TOTAL PROPERTY LOSS is estimated at about 000 total amount of insurance about is not authoritatively known the story of combustible matter which was reported as exploding SKity hearsay statements Neither Mr Wooten nor A H Herring manager can give any information as to the origin FLUMES FINALLY CONTROLLED The fire broke out shortly after one oclock and foi an hour it appeared that the business section of XS street was in danger of taring tion The firemen laid seven lines of hose and fought thi blaze from every angle at subduing the flame to the buildings heretofore mentioned way into the very face of the flames and sullenly fought every inch ii ton fires progress by their efforts the Logan garage the Kennedy and Morrison stands the Bills grain store Lockett furniture store and perhaps many other buildings were saved Just when it seemed that man an other building must go and the proper ity loss soar into the hundreds ot thou sands of dollars the west wall of the ing crash to he followed by a portion building fell with a resound I the east and south walls Then ame such a fusillade of explosions as has been rarely heard in any place in ny time Half a car of cartridges and stored against the south ast wall of the Wooten basement be gan to explode For thirty minutes a rattle resembling the stac J H TO WACO Publish New Time Table and Ao Folder for Texas Central BEFORE MASS MEETING TONIGHT WHICH WILL BK IS ES II WATERS near the scene and blackened and cartridge hulls were picked up at a distance of several hundred yards Tom the Wooten building The wind played many queer tricks When the fire started it was blowing rom the northeast then suddenly changed to the east This caused the danger to the buildings on toe west side of Walnut stret Finally it shift ed almost to the south and for thirty minutes or more ceased altogether Had the wind continued to blow ly toward the west no contrivance of human agency it is predicted could have saved the north side of business district The four freight cars destroyed were on the Texas Pacific siding between the Wooten building and south shed of the Company All were loaded two with canned goods and salt for Wooten and the other two with lime and cement for go J H Redfern departed today in hie railroad motor car Vampire ton Waco where he trill make head quarters in the future He has been appointed advertising manager for the Texas Central Railroad and will soon issue a new and advertising solder for the system A handsome folder is Just off the press Wichita Falls Route which for the is MM NEWTON OFFICE OF CONSTABLE to Taken OB Matter mass meeting of citizens in the Summer Theatre tonight the of Consulting Engineer John B Hawley of Fort Worth whom the city commission employed to make a chemical on the of Little Difference la Waters of Cedar Creek sued by Mr Redfern and is one ot the nicest pieces of work in this line which has been published Mr Red fern has contracts with a number of Texas railroads for handling their time tables and advertising folders DIP CATTLE AT j Livestock Says al of Station Will Work Big Saving For After September 1 the official dip ping station of the Texas Commission will be moved from Sweet water to Baird and the latter place The Commissioners Court of Tar lor county in regular quarterly yesterday receives nation of M M Newton M of Precinct No 1 No official has been taken in the matter A nut ber of applications have been Died by parties for M JMr Newtons successor i More Wanted Tbe Commissioners received from several sections la jrttdi voters requested more voting bOMa i One petition was from and two I from the Abilene box Tomorrow will we County Judge Bledsoe and all the Commissioners in the good roads of Precinct No 1 under the guiding wing of County A Tte M analysis on tne waters of nuu Cedar creek and Lytle lake alto to the one tbat be GaP roRd now completed win give hi opinion on the proposed new Am will be read report follows Mr r the Commission This will mean the arable money to the cattle raisers of the state who find It necessary to trans be thoroughly inspected also the Aft son road which is practically HORSE BATS The only Incident approximating an injury occurred when the fire was hottest and Dave the spirited coal black fire horse on Protection Hose o 1 was the victim Driver Major aniel avers that Dave in his ent literally picked up a segment urning wire in his teeth His ton Tie and jaws were frightfully burn I the T F Lockett of sort of ment Mr Wooten was conversing tion efficiency would be she said prior to a reporter as to his losses and j Buch as to remoTe an turbidity from I Intend purchasing the ve insurance when J M Radford water and at east 98 per cent of tides in to Wei argest competitor walked up ut his hand and said STATEMENT BY MR RING A H Herring manager of the Burton Lingo Lumber Company made the following statement to the Reporter this afternoon In behalf of the Company I wish to extend my cordial thinks to the fire boys who did all in their power to prevent the spread of a disastrous fire We appreciate their fight just as much as if they had saved our buildings later when we have time we will express our apprecia tion in a more substantial manner Relative to building I will state that we will rebuild as soon as pos sible be open and ready for bus iness just as soon as we are able The flames spread with such rapidity that by HIP time thi firemen arrived the entire south shed of the Lumber Company extending over one en tire block was freely ablaze Then the blaze licked over the middle and sheds quickly consuming them attaches succeeded in stowing in the two safes all books and papers bills and currency Those withstood the flames it is thought Hy the time the first line of hose was laid the northwest wing ot the building was on fire Nation AND While the weet wall of the Wooten was trembling on the point of Mr Wooten C W Bacon nd other company officials were atan ing together on the Texas and Paci c right of way between the freight de lot and the T P Lockett establish i the state who nna it w Abilene Texas Aug 14 1911 rer catUe from the quarantine line to pastures above It the gritt ing pastures will be more accessible at Baird than there were at er and both time and money will be saved to the shippers in keeping up their cattle between the dippings mm LEAVES NIL Honorable the Mayor and City Com mission Abilene Texas Acting under your request an sub mitted to me by Mr C E Leonard your city engineer on the Uth I began an examination of samples of water marked C and LD look ing toward filtering them for muni cipal use results on the two are very nearly the same as follows 1 degrees or about 128 parts per million 7 degrees or about 128 parts par solids 260 solids 8 milligram per litre 1 milligram per litre reddish grayi Proprietor Sbr Will tn Said Commissioner It Is probable before we that we will the county farm Oar tennant Tom bested all htt I neighbors on early cotton marketing A the first bale here He has a big af pickers at work and to bring in another bale Wednesday and still another Saturday fWe hate oa the poor farm about one hundred and i twentyfive acres of cotton In tion upon which Mr i to pick from forty to fifty it i i Is a pretty sample of 1911 cotton as can be found in Taylor county The court today passed on j road petitions and before will pass on and allow the usual ao counti May Darnell of tbe Emporium i These results are sufficient to enable toft over the Texas and Pacific us to state that there will be no din morning for St Louis and Chicago on to filtering either of the her annual marketing tour at a cost not to exceed 1600 of Darnell will top over a day and nigh per million by means of any to her i expect to bs absent about three Clint Conner who hag been Ing In a meeting at Nugent CUM In today and left this afternoon for kel departure sucn as to remove an ironi A Tory Deft his the water and at least 98 per cent of tides in ladles ready to Wear and mil held M buin will be ted up and practically one possible My buying will be It it will do dred per cent of the gort quite aa heavy as usual and quite as 1 i i i j j T Will B L Ellis and Kade Legett hart returned from a visit for the past days to Galveston They report i cotton carnival a great success and the city filled with visitors and all parts o the country er We will stand by you as long as we have a dollars worth of goods eft BACK any good Horace dont miss an typhoid fever varied I think the fall or similar bowel diseases warrant it Drouths and storms Such a filtration plant will coat you not caused the buying public of Abl about for one million gallons lene to lose confidence in the city Bey John P of thU left over the Tejas and morning for Hamilton county to at O will tend the Baptist at Indian Gap and before returning to 111 visit another Association at Sey Baylor county H Graham Belarus From And For Beginning of District Court per 24 hours capacity or abont 000 to for two millions gallons per diem Following my report of October 1894 the city of Fort Worth is now install ing such a filtration plant of 6000 Graham of 000 gallons daily capacity to be coin fourt Reporter W H 01 wv the 42nd Judicial District returned October 1 1911 fcn advance of over the Texas and Pacific this morn the great impounding and storage re al Packing Company men who occ jy this wing saved all valuable pape ind accounts as well as all n the house and made their escap hrough the south end of the bull np The Wooten force worked like ti gers to stow all valuable papers an in the big vault yet so swiftly did the are cover the building that hey were barely able to escape with out injury The report that one of Hr Wootens clerks se rious burns was an error There were no injuries The fire reached Its height when ed lir Graham Is ready for the be ginning of Judge court Mon day August 28 I ran into some pretty hot supply our people to boil water for drinking purposes I have heard it stated during today that such filtration is impracticable Today Popular Man of and little of course home delighted to be back l said and has elsewhere proven a failure Such is not the case as results above IS Daughter of Secretary Pratt Be comes Bride oJ Teacher To live in Baskell mentioned at cost stated are univer sally obtained under proper design construction and operation City Engineer Leonard has taken me to your projected dam sites on Cedar i and Rainy creeks and has gone through his computations or cost on S T Morehead aged 24 years died at oclock this morning In the home of Mrs Ida B Powers in South west Abilene Tuberculosis caused death The body was conveyed to the Laughter undertaking establishment mans mother is buried Attending Mr Morehead in his last illness were Mrs huge tongues of flaine swept over Wal nut street and set the L D Kenne dy grain store afire This blaze was quickly extinguished The fence to toe entrance of the J coal yard also fire but firemen suc in stopping this blaze The scene was terribly magnificent Huge billows of coal black smoke rolling over and over weat up on high to a distance of several hundred yards Smoke hung over the Pine street business district for a time ren dering objects fifty yards away So hot was the blase that there were thousands of not approach nearer than one hundred yards from any di rection Notwithstanding this compli cation of hazards nervy firemen mask ed behind dripping shirts and hand kerchiefs and tugging at and squirming horses boldly pushed son county The wedding was at the First Christian church Pastor H Morrison DeKnoblough an sad 0 C city either parsonage officiating The young people are school teach Mnj Miss Pratt received her Ject from to If as he estimates the necessary land should cost clearing A n g ot year and her and pipe line to town to Kentucky for bur the including filter plant Former Manager Abilene Company leaven Newark 0 Old Benjamin Shank former manager of the independent Telephone Compar ny accompanied by Mrs Snank left over the Texas and Pacific this Wg for Fort Worth thence to their old home Newark Ohio where tney remain for the nest ninety days Mr has resigned bis duties with the Independents Company and the directors have ed OB and accepted his resignation Gus Kloti who has been with the company about a year has been nam ed as his successor Mr Kloti a brothers or of E KloU woo pur ouo cousin His chased the ola T Morehead died In from the receivers Messrs James of this year and her tor the present corporation Mr had been to Abilene t J Mr uuu cation In the Abilene High Schooled We jointly of the hout wo which time subsequent normals They will nave after map studies tbat the months preceding hta joint charge of the school at Pinker flar creek drainage area has ne wag continuously in the em ton Haskell county W L Garnett of Brownwood wasj among tte business visitors in the jdar creeK ne was continuously in the em 50 square miles and the Lytle ot Henry Sayles jr as stenog He had many warm friends city yesterday and while ft the city stopped at the Hotel Grace C G Purvis of Cleburne was the city yesterday prospecting leav ing this morning over the and Pacific for his home I about 60 square miles Rainey creek at the proposed site is practically below your cud of comparatively small drainage ares Any suggestion as to syphon ing it to the city is frivolous and ab Q 0 Boyd and J T Newman living jJ out in the Potosi district marketed ton In Abilene Monday Mr Boyd sold surd Cedar and Lytle sites both He above you and become confluent within your limits They should be looked to ly for your future Mrs E R Weatherford and chil dren of this city left this morning I anticipate returning to Texas ninety to accept a position the Automatic Telephone Copil pany Mr said today Shank and I have learned to Ilka as too well to stay away We want our good friends hero know that we leave the good Abilene with the keenest regrets stay here has been very for Titus and Delta counties on a months visit to relatives Marriage licenses Raymond E Cooley Miss Gladys Hunter of was in the city yesterday Stopping at Hotel Grace Mrs 0 H Crews and children thp Hamby neighborhood passed thro Abilene this morning en route to Jon Coryell county where they to J W Evans at 11 cents Respectfully j v Walter j will visit Mr Crews father and will JOHN B HAWLEY M H Stone of Alvarado and Miss be Absent from their home for Consulting Engineer Eva L Pratt al weeks or a month
