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Some Details of $200,000 Fire
The lniiil In--- incurred hy the fir"
demon tn McKiniicy Tuwdil) afti'I'-
ll on 11 will iiinuunl lit f200,000.00. The
fire started in t lit- six-room bungalow
tin South Ti iiiH'HHeo street belonging
lo Mrs. M. i: (ira.v. There were thrci
families light housekeeping in this
residence, us follows: Mi uiul Mm.
A. T. Oarduer, Mr ami Mrs Karl
Johnson ami Mr aiul Mrs Amly
c'onyer. Mrs (larilni'r hail her oil
stove 11 1111' < I in llio kitchen, ami hint
stepped out into another room for a
few minutes, returning to f I nil the in
telior i*l tin kitchen in a hla/a De-
spite the lioroii work hy Hut meuihcis
of the MeKlnney Kin Scpartiucnt.
this residence ami the two-story resi-
dence Jnxt north, belonging 'o anil
occupied li> 1!. A Jojilln, Were sootl
destroyed hy the flames. Willi the
automobile lire truck ami Ho untir-
ing efforts put forth by the members
of the ili'partincut. tin' fire was hold
to them- two buildings The resldencu
of Dallas Sparlin, as well an other
residences and out-bouses ncarhy,
wire «aveil b> efficient work on the
part of the fire hoys.
A strong wind blowing from the
south was sweeping tin flames In-
ward the business suction of town,
und upon more than one occasion It
seemed tlint it woulil he Impossible
to keep Hie fire from spreading and
<lestroylng all buildings in that see-
lion.
Soon after the fire started in (ho
residence seel ion another alarm wan
sounded, and i! w .is found that thn
cotton wharf at (he MeKlnin > Cot-
ton Compress was In flames. The
fire fighting force was combatting
with the (Ire demon on South T e
nessec silent at the (line (he alarm
was' turned iu from tin1 compress,
ami as Mi fir they Were (hell figlil
i11f.* was Ml 111 a menace (o the ni Ip h -
liorhood. all they could do Was to di-
vide fo'vi s and detail sum • nf (In*
fire ho, j to the fire at the compress
The fire (.III: I lie which Is kept at the
city hall for emergencies was Inline
dialtiy out in operation and rushed
to the emu press. As soon as the fire
on Son'h Tennessee street was under
control, the new automobile fire truck
was rushed to the compress. The
pressure fmm the fire truck Was turn-
ed on the old plant of the Collin
countv Mill .V F.levator Company, and
the flames kept front spreading to
ilit" fonr-stoiy frame si met in'".
i'arlles al (lie cotton wharf at the'
time lh" fire started say It was caused
by n. hurtling shingle, rancid In
an eddv and carried high into the
oir front the burning building on
Tennessee street and blot, n aimniK
(hi hales of cotton by the st long south
wind. We are (old (hat Cotton In-
spector Clayton, as well it* other*
were on the wharf and near the south
end when the fire started.
fli'sides the $4!>,000 compress 2500
hales of cotton were destroyed. Fight
box tars on the H. >V T. C. track
woe also hurtled, these cars being
loadi d with cotton. There Were ten
ears alongside the cotton wharf, two
empties, these two were shoved down
the track, and were not destroyed All
the truck where these cars were, was
destroyed, the ties burned and rails
badly warped by the heat. The negro
residence northeast of III. in'iipir.®
were destroyed. The eight box curs
Wire valued at $(1,400.00
The cotton which Was burned was
fully covered by insurance There
was $20.000.oO insurance on the com-
press.
Mr.. (Iruy Valued her residetiee at
$ I <>00, wlili h w as. partly coven d 1 >>
insurance Tin furniture in the (Iruy
butlilinir was owned by .1 C. (lardner,
and was valued al $t0t), with no in-
surance. 1! A. Joplln valued his
home at $1',000.00, on which lie car
rlrd $1200.00. lie estimated the loss
oil his household poods al $HOO.OO, on
these lie carried $."i()0 insurance
immediately to the north of the
MeKlnney Cotton Compress Company
plant is the old plant of the Collin
County Mill Klev.itor Company, to
the east the big plant of the MeKln-
ney lc" Light and Coal Coiilpaliy, and
to i he southeast the New Collin
County Mill &■ Elevator Company
plant, tlie II T c. and M Is. T.
ill pots. Ilill A; Webb elevator build
mgs; also lo the east of the compress
was the local yard of the (lulf Re-
fining nil Company, the big ware
11 o a hi which contained several linn
iln I hales of colt,on. Tile flic hoys
ifter taking their stand succeeded in
confining Hie Ida/.e to tile compress
plant and cotton wharf, which, as
above stated, was completely de-
stroyed
Will KchiiiM IMant.
The officers and heavy stockhold-
ers in Hie MeKlnney Compress Com-
pany are S. 11. Heard, president; .1. S.
Heard, vice president; I1'. II. I'ope,
secridary; Tom K Craig. manager.
Mr. Craig said that the 2.S00 hales of
col ton. were fully covered by Itisur-
aiiee. lh fore the fire had been com-
pletely controlled Mr. CralK alinotini -
ed that steps would be taken ir.iliip-
dlutely to rebuild the plant, to be
ready for operation In lime for this
year's cotton crop.
M. W. llart, a Ren I for the Houston
Sr Texas Central Hallway, nalil he es-
timated the loss of the railroad, in
damaged track and the eight cars de-
stroyed, to ho between $0,000 unit
$8,000. Two empty freight cut's wtru
rescued by a switch engine, but thi|
loaded cars could not be reached lit
time to save them. ,1. W I'urccll and
.1, l>. llass .v Son were the heaviest
Individual losers of stored cotton,
each having about 200 bales stored
with the compress company They
were protected by Insiiranco.
It was rumored that a lot'Ke quan-
IIt> of dynamite was stored in one of
i lie iiiiililtims tu the immediate vlelti
it\ of the coin press fire. If (he fire
had readied that hulldiiiK and it
was oiilv averted hy the most despe-
rate flKlitliiK a terrific explosion
would have followed, resulting In a
great loss of life and proper! \ poh-
slhlv and making it Impossible to
control the fire A severe explosion
of the boiler of the compress com-
pany was only averted by tlie pres-
ence of mind of the engineer, who
opened up all the valves and allowed
the steam lo escape when II became
evident that Hire was no hope or sav-
ing the plant.
l ire I'tltlcr I 'oilI ml.
While (lie fire was under control at
f. o'clock after three hours of haul
fighting, great heaps of cotl-on bales
are still blazing today and will pro-
hahh continue to burn for several
days Great precaution is being
taken to prevent the fire breaking
out anew.
I luring a part of (lie aft. noon
Tuesday the fit> was without el i-
irlc power or light and the lei phone
si rvl. c Was impaired. The main linen
nf tin Tndependntll l.lgllt and Power
Company, running directly ovethi
ei.i ■ 11.. es:'. was pill Ollt of colli ill-iiwloll
Tie main line or the elt.v 'iglil plan!
'a ' m put out of commission hj. the
j'i--i in ; lie residence section of Soirh
I'clim ! ee St reel
Several of I lie firemen succumbed
to the heal of were exhausted In the
long I'lglit and had to have first-aid
attention i Hlicrwise Hien were no
injuries In either fire or occit-
patils of the htiildlllg.
Oilier llolliliiiiis I'lrcil.
( M her buildings. Including vi sideti-
ces, barns, woodsheds, etc., which
caught from the burning residence
Tuesday afternoon, were Hon. I.. .1
Truett's fine home. Mr. Truetl's rent
house occupied hi' Mr. ami Mrs. W.
VI. Snow, I if. .1. A. Caldwell's resi-
dence, .1. J. Sportsman residence, .1
I v. (.'aires' residence. .Toe Crouch's
resilience, house belonging to the
Muse hell's, occupied by Constable
Tom Hounds and family, A. h. fler-
tish s residence, which was vacant,
Hlles McKlniicy's barn and woodshed
negro cabin at home of Mm .1. M.
I'l. '-son, residence of Jake McKlttisv,
which is occupied by W. T. I.ovell,
alio Wccilcu Kruuklln's barn. Hy «>r-
flcb nl work on |lie part of t\ie bucket
I i'ig. de, these bla/.cs which stalled
on tin roof of 4 tit'li of tlie nho\u
I iilldiugs were soon ( sllngllished,
wlili only slight damage
I/Iimher VhiiI In IIiiiiki'I'.
The big lumber y ard of the Will ox
laimher Company w is endangered
Tuesday afternoon In the blazing cin-
ders. which were being hurled
through the all hy the strong south
wind These cinders fell on the roof
of the various buildings al the lum-
ber yard, and a force of men worn
kept busy keeping tin building from
catching on fire.
'I'llIn* Mules I'rom llariis.
Some of the mule buyers, who have
large barns on Kast Louisiana street,
desiring to have their stock In a place
ol safety, should the building catch
fire, ran their mules out of the barns
and drove them beyond the railroad
I racks.
Mini* Vohinlis'i's.
chid Johnny MeKlnney in conver-
sation with a reporter of these papers
staled that never before had their
been so many men and hoys of the
town and country to assi/d the mem-
bers of the fire department In com
bating I lie flames, as there was Tuck
day afternoon lie says that all whit
aided tin members of the department
I' • 111 -111 like i ■ I d timers
Keep Wiilrli Hoting \iglil.
Tie fife engine was kept at the
compress file Tuesday nighl. two
lines nf hose Were connected allil ice.l
dining I he night lo kei p the flames
from spreading lo oilier buildings.
ol ri lis i sr or two iti«;
M TOMOIIIU: I'lltl', Till CliM
While the file was raging al tin!
compress, .1 Kil. Schmltz of Dallas.
"Peni for the American l,a France
i nioiunhlle CI re Truck, and who sold
tile lily of MeKlnney the big truck
Which paid for itself several littles
Tuesday by keeping the flames from
spreading to other bulldinga, wired
Chief Johnny McKlur. y that he had
had two l>lg fire i rucks, which lie
uses for deivi .us! ml ions purposes, and
tbni he would rush them to MeKln-
ney and assist In extinguishing the
flames, If Mr. MeKlnney thought it .
necessary Itut as the local company I
had the flames pretty well tinder con-!
trol, Mr. MeKlnney wired him that it
was not necissary. and thanked hliu
for his generous offer
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TiiltoK Motion ricliiivs.
Charlie Kimball, manager of the
I'ope and Happy Hour Theatre, who
is always on the Joli was al Hie sene
of the conflagration with his ma htne
and took motion pictures of (lie fires.
Tin 'sc will be shown on the screen at
one nf the above theatres real soon
<iii'iil«iil Management tin Wnlcli.
The management of the Loos Car-
nival <'empally, w hich has lis show
tents creeled on the lot al the corner
of Chestnut and Mavis streets, were
kept busy seeing that none of t ln*
tints caught from tile living cinders
Tills l ittle |bl> Whs (lllttl.
While the flames were eallllg their
way through the hundreds ol bales of
cotton and the compress Imlhl
ing. a little boy some seven or light
years of age, while watching the con
flag rat Inn with much amnitemenl,
turned to his companion and remark
ed. "(lee Hull's sure a bad fire, but
I'm glad It didn't burn the carnival "
Mirny Visitors To t'll.v.
Soon after the fire started the news
was flashed over the wires to near by
towns, and It was not long until a.
large crowd was here front other
towns and couiinunllles Many per-
sons came through the country In
automobiles, while others clinic on,
the iutertirbati cars and from lite
country In private conveyances
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llcvll's Stable Catches.
The lilg lively stable building of
.1 I,' Hcvil. Just back of the W, O.
U building. was fired hy cinders
from the hurtling residences. A
burning cinder I' M in some liny in
the rear of I lie building The blare
w.i-i sunn e\I ing ulshcil hy enipinyeH of
I P llovvell. who lined a number of
tin e\linguIt'ller; which are kept III
I lie I Hiw el I store
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A Human Squirrel.
Cloyil Young, colored, elevator boy
al Matthews llros big store proved lo
be a "human squirrel" Tuesday after-
noon by climbing lo the house top of
I J. Trmil's fine residence and extin-
guishing the flte which would no
doubt have destroyed the building
liONIO ST Alt III.M COMI'AN V
K KI'HIOKI'INTATIV UN H I,It 10
llepresentalives from the Trfine Star
l'*i I in Company at Italian, came up to
MeKlnney tills morning and made
motion pictures of the ruins at the
MeKlnney Cotton Compress caused by
Tuesday afternoon's fire. We were
Informed thai these gentlemen went
from here to I'aris, Texas.
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OWM'.II ANII MAI* INTKHKNT
IN MICH HflTtW III'KNKit
J H llass \ Son, cotton merelinnls
of this city, owned and had an Inter-
est in five hundred bates ol' cotton,
which was destroyed by fire Tuesday
afternoon. Mr liass states that this
was fully covered by insurance,
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ItOI'NC) lll'OM. 1/OfrC I'lltlMI,
\ IIIlIn over one hundred bales of
the cotton burned here Tuesday after-
noon and nighl, belong'1!! to luirney
llros.. cotton merchants of this city
li was covered by insurance.
In a personal note to one of tho
editors of this paper, Hev. II. K. Ver-
million, general missionary of the
Kaptisl convention of fyew Mexico,
say s:
"I usually preach two or three
Utiles a day ami I travelled 2,600
miles Iu January ami l.fiOO In I'Vliru-
ary So, you see, I am not eating any
idle bread.
"Ilv being snow hound in Colorado
I failed lo reach Columbus on the Dili
Inst Thai Is all thai prevented mo
from being In the Hotel Ihnt was
burned and ii occupants murdered
hy Villa's outlaws."
Ilev Vi r i u i 111 on l'i well known ill
Collin county where lie was reared
and liaa numerous relatives. Ills
many Texas relatives and friends are
thankful ol' Ins previdenl in I hind-
rance froirt reaching Columbus ill
Utile to fall a victim lo Villa'ty
bulchers.
HAIIY or Mlt. AM HltN. HAY
l>!i:i IN WACO Sl'NOAV
Mrs. I'', t'". \\ iffgs of Hiis dly Iiiih
received news front Waco annoimcc-
lllg the death of the fifteen months
old baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ilay.
which occurred Sunday. The IIHI4
child had been sick of pneumonia for
several days. Mr. and Mrs. Hay for-
merly lived in MeKlnney, he hnvlnir
been a plumber. Ill the employe of F.
I'". Wlggs. T. C. Morgan of this dly,
a hrotfccr to Mrs. Ilay went to Waco
to attend the funeral.
i dew ee f1ct0rv
id it nr it dice
On yesterday afternoon a number
of the representative business men
anil capitalists of our city met iu the
office of Mr. V. B. I'ope and orgutill-
ed "The Polar Ice and Fuel Com-
pany."
Ajnplc stock was subscribed to se-
cure the new enterprise for the city.
The charter Is being: prepared today
and will go forward to Austin at
once.
Tim company Is cupltalised at
$40 .000. all of which has been sub-
scribed. A lot on Wilcox street,
where the big asphalt plant of l<evy
& Levy Is now located, has been pur-
chased by the company for the fac-
tory site, and work will soon begin on
the erection of a brick building for
the machinery.
officers of the new company are:
Thos. K. Craig, president.
H. t). Scott, vice-president.
W. Avery Howell, secretary-treas-
urer.
Among those who are stockhold-
ers In tlie concern are the following
well known business men;
Titos. 10. Crnlg, J. S. Heard, S. I>.
Heard, F. B. Pope. H. O. Scott. W.
Avery Howell and others whose
names could not be ascertained this
afternoon.
MeKlnney is to be congratulated
upon the securing of this new and
up-to-date plant which will be mod-
ern in every particular, with ample
Ice making and cold storage capacity.
The establishment of such plants K
but tlie logical outcome of McKin-
ttey's progresslvcpess. We have al-
ways told you that such public Im-
provements as our new high school
building, our many miles of new
pavement, our new lire lighting
equipment, not only engender pride
of citizenship but Infuse confidence
Into capital.
Note the civic pride evidenced by
the handsome new homes lately
built or being built here. I. d you
ever see the number of young shade
trees set In one season that have
greeted you upon every street ibis
spring? Did you ever see the people
as much alive and as full of the
spirit of "The City Beautiful" us the
present work along the curbs and in
the yards indicate?
"Where a man's heart Is there will
his treasure be." Let us continue In
the great work of public Improve-
ment and home benutlflcatlon and
we will see a continuation of the
present tendency of our local capital
to Invest In such assets to our city as
the great addition to our cotton mill,
the new Collin County flour mill, the
addition to the Texas Power A. Light
Company's plant, this new Ice fac-
tory and cold storage plant, and our
| county fair.
.Vow let everybody always boost
and there Is no doubt as to the fu-
ture.
AT nil WO Sl'NOAV.
Lminitc lliiinc Presiding Kldcr C.
\V. Ilciinls Heard HMm |i Host
In iMillas.
Presiding Mbler C. W. Dennis held
quarterly conference al Frisco Sat-
urday and Sunday. He came home
via Dallas and stopped there to at-
tend the Methodist Pastors' Confer-
ence which was held In the Publish-
ing House Monday morning. Hishop
K. K Hoss addressed the conference
on Ills observations and experiences
In Australia.
FOSTER'S WEATHER BULLETIN
Copyrighted 1910 by W. T. Foster.
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L, J. Stevenson of Anna. Houtc R,
called at thl« office Tuesday and re-
newed his si scrlptlon to The Weekly
r omoc.rat-(7 «ette and Dallas News.
Messrs. f no Horn and John Dowdy
have returned from Fort. Worth
where they have been in attendance
at the Fat Stock Show.
Washington, D. C. March 23. - Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent March 27 to 31,
warm wave 20 lo 30, cool wave 2#
to April 2. Tills storm will come at
the close of a great disturbance and
it will be a great storm west of inert
•llan 00, decreasing In force east, of
meridian 00 and Ihcn greatly In-
creasing again out on tlie Atlantic.
Its temperatures will average about
normal.
The storms move from west lo east
around the magnetic north polt*
which is located near 93 west of
c.reenwleh and near 70 north latitude.
That Is almost exactly north of Ht.
Paul, Minn.. 2fi degrees. The average
storm path Is a circle about 25 de
glees south of the north magnetic
pole and that circle strikes St. Paul
ami Minneapolis, on the Asiatic
continent this circle Is about 10 de-
grees north of SI. Petersburg, being
i.i at lift north white at Minneapolis it
Is 4*, north latitude. The system of
l.nng Hang'' Weather Forecasting of
Co IT. S. Weather Bureau, which re-
cenily proved a failure, win to find
where the storms were on that circle
ami then estimate when they would
reach and cross the continent. The
rcn nn for the failure is that the ro-
1 ii *'ve positions of Sun, Moon, Earth
and major planets change the posi-
tions and speed of the atorins. But
I Ho Weather Bureau official! are too
stubborn and prejudiced to see those
facts.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
canst about March 31, cross Pacific
sl"pe by dose of April 1, central val-
leys April 2 lo 4, eastern mictions fi
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about March 31. central va'ieys A|til
2, eastern Heetlo.ui 4. 'ool wave >v 11 •
cross Pacific slope about April 3,
central valleys fi, eastern scctlona 7.
Tills storm will probably pass
through Hie southern ' states and
then northeastward so thai It will ar-
recl nearly the whole of this contl
nent. It Is expected to be the great-
est storm of April and very important
in the way of crop weather, (lenerol
and heavy rains are expected from it.
Tlie rains of April are expected to
tic heaviest in our sout heamcrn
states and gradually lighter toward
the northwest. Least rain Is expect-
ed in th'.> plains provinces of ''iinatlsi,
but even tlnie sufficient rains are
cxpccled ('or April. We expect too
much rain In April in southeast sec-
lions of tills continent.
The disturbance during tlie week
centering on April 3 is expected to!
I e n great storm and our readers
should govern themselves according-
ly. II will probably be at Its greatest
rorcn near April fi at which time It
is calculated to be near (he Atlantic,
coast In the vicinity or New York
City. All shipping interests and tra-
vel on the Atlantic should lie on the
lookout for squalls near April fi.
Tlie cool wave will be a cold Wave
in northern sections and frosts are
expected to reach meridian 90, mov-
ing eastward in northern nections,
about April 6. As that cold wave)
comes in very heavy rains are ex-
pected to add to the floods caused hy
rerent heavy rains. The floods are
expected in the large sections bound-
ed weat hy the Mississippi and north
by the long drainage strip through
which run the Ohio and Potomac
river*. Killing frosts are < xpoctod
farther south than usual during the
week ' entering on April 13t
McHINMOY NAIIill.K HOR K*.
Several sold at Fat Stock Show In
FI. Worth by Dowdy
Jk Horn.
John Dowdy, Hiino Horn. E. O.
White and Nat. Talkington all At-
tended I he Fat Stock Hhow at Ft.
Worth. Howdy /k Horn sold ten
head of saddle horses and Mr. White
sold two. Mr. Dowdy sold his five
year old spotted pony stallion "Bll-
llo Wilson," which wus next day
killed In a railroad wreck as he wus
being shipped out.
HAS ADIIM) TWFLVI,
NKW MKMBBRM
t'p to the present Copt. J. A. Ben-
ton, of lite Hurrus II If les. Company
M. 4th Infantry, Texa* National
Ouat'd. has added twelve new mem-
bers to his company. The member-
ship of the company Is now It. CtepL
llenlon hones to Increase It to ltf
In fact lie received instructions a few
days ago to recruit his company to
I no. He has a recruiting office
opened up at the North HUle Barber
Shop.
('apt. Benton and Ills company will
go out for camp Saturday night.
After a most pleasant vlalt to feer
brothers, J. K. P. Shradcr of MeKln-
ney, and Fount and Brooker Rhradar,
at. Frisco, Mrs. M. F. Tarpley left
Thursday afternoon for her home at
McAlester, New Mexico.
city Marshall Jim Vance of Piano
was a visitor In the Collin county cap-
ital Tuesday afternoon.
City of Paris Destroyed by Fire
1'n.rls, Tex., March 22. 10-31' a m.
A conservative estimate of 1 lie in in
Iter of people unlimited hy Tuesday
night's lire In business and residenti-
al district Is placed al elk,1'! thou-
sand, according to Mayor McCuis-
Hon. Tlte imimiarv damages Is esti-
mated at live million dollars, al
though It Is impossible to obtain an
iiccitrale account An unusual fea-
ture of the conflagration was (hat
there were no lives lost and none
seriously Injured. Although the city
is without food, as all buslne; a
houses Were burned, lher< Is appal
vtitly little suffering and the cillr."ns
ore taking I lit* disaster good uatured-
1y, although dusted when they view
I In- great disaster. The women and
children are being cared for In what
buildings remained. The men who
did not spend the night fighting fire
alept on the lawns in the open.
The work of dealing the street«
I
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was begun Hits morning, lull It. will
probably require several days to com-
plete the work. What few of the
smaller buildings that remain are oc-
cupied today by stores and shops of
all kinds, merchants dealing in com-
modities sent in from nearby clllos
hy special trains
FOItMliHIiY LII'll IN PAIIIH.
F. lOveroll My ni|ml lilacs Willi
Friends and <iisbmtci's Who Snf.
fwil I jims In Flri*.
I T !•' Kverett, a prominent McKIn
ni y commercial representative, form-
erly lived In Paris, coming from there
when lie located in MeKlnney. He
has many acquaintances anil friends
living there and Ills customers there
were all among those who lost their
stores In I he great conflagration that
swept the city yesterday Mr. Kverett
Is a great admirer of the enterprise
allil pluck of Paris as a city ami Ills
warmest sympathy goes out to them In
their overwhelming disaster from the
fire demon.
HOMF, IN PAHIS.
o. M. Martin lifted In l ib YMUit
Hy Hlg Mn\
Prof, i >. M. Martin, teacher of
Manual Training In lite Boyd High
School, resides in Paris, Texas. Iln
lived with his mother. Mrs. II l .
Martin, whose home is on Kast Alls-
lilt street. In block (too. When In-
terviewed by a Unity Coiirler-llaietU*
reporter about noon today, slated
that he had received no word from
Paris, bill Is satisfied thai Ills moth-
er's home cscnped 'he flames which
destroyed more Hint thirty blocks in
that oily Tuesday night.
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IK LIVINti IN PAIUM
Mrs W. F Moore, a daughter of
Judge and Mrs. T C. (loodner of
this city, resides In Paris. Texas. At
noon today no word had been re-
ceived from her. Their home was
about four blocks northeast of the
High School huthltng which was
burned, and It Is not known whether
or not Mr. and Mrs. Moore's resi-
dence was destroyed Mr Moore is
a well known attorney at Paris and
hail his office in a building on the
square. Ills law offlc > was burned
according to reports published about
llie conflagration
I'M AH. MOHK OF THIN CITV
IjOSF.N PROPKKTY AT I'AKIM
Chas. Mohr of this city, owner of
tlie City llakery. owned h nice home
on Kast Auatin street in Paris. This
residence, however, he believes es
enpeil the flames which destroyed
the greater portion of that city Tues-
day night. Another residence own-
ed by Mr. Mohr and his brother,
John Mohr, which was occupied by
two of their sisters, was burned, as
was also Ills brother's residence and
drug store.
HAI UHTKH L08MS
PROIT-iKTY AT PAHIS
Judge T C. (loodner had a phone
message at 2: So Wednesday afternoon
from his daughter, Mrs. W. F. Moore,
of Paris, Texas, stating that their res-
idence and nil Its contents were de-
al royed by fire Tuesday night. Mr.
Moore also had his office and three
rent houses destroyed.
Food Supply From Dallas.
The local agent of the M. K. A T.
informed The Daily Coiirier-ClaMttc
that this company sent a train out of
Dallas litis morning at 10:10 o'cloek
in charge of F. O. Abbey, Assistant
(leneral freight agent, to Paris, Tax-
as. The train was loaded with food
supplies for the people of that city.
THIlttt: I.IVRN IA HIT.
I " " •
Paris, Tex., March !!. J:#0
p. m —\t this hour there haa
been three dcatha reported as ■
result of last nlght'a fire. The
loss of property Is now estimat-
ed at about (en million dollars.
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Perkins, Tom W. & Wilson, Walter B. The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1916, newspaper, March 23, 1916; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292195/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.