$100,000 FIRE
MONDAY NIGHT.
s Newport Wholesale Grocer
Co., Freight Depots and
Beer House Burned.
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ORIGIN OF BLAZE IS NOT AS YET KNOWN.
Was Discovered Barsting
From Roof of Elevator
Aboot 9:30
AND RAGED UNTIL MIDNIGHT,
Leaving Devastation and Ruins in
Its Wake—Particulars of
the Big Fire.
5 FIRE LOSS |
$100,000. :
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I Approximately the above 5
£ figures represent the ac- \
j tual losses sustained in J
# Monday night’s confla- f
^ration. The railroad’s 2
i loss is only estimated. t
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The most disastrous fire that
has occurred in Newport since
the big compress conflagration
of 1898 was the one discovered
in the upper portion of the An
derson elevator about 9:20 o’clock
Monday night.
The blaze was discovered by
railroad men in the local yards,
and the alarm immediately given
by the tooting of the switch en
gine whistles, which in a very
remarkably shoit time attracted
a crowd of several hundred peo
ple to the scene.
The fire department made good
time in the run of about three
blocks and soon had the hose
connection made at the corner of
Front and Main streets and a
stream of water playing upon
the burning building, but by this
^ time the flames had gained such
L " f eadway that it seemed the
^water only added fuel to the
already doomed building.
In a very short time the fire
had spread to the Lemp Brewing |
Company’s warehouse adjoining!
the elevator, and it did not then
require much time to communi
cate to the big freight depot of
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern railway, the pumping1
plant and the big frame elevator
and warehouse-which stood upon
the banks of White river.
The reflection of the brilliant j
hues against the skies was dis- j
cernable for miles, and railroad
men arriving here from Hoxie
Wednesday morning stated that
it looked like the whole section
was in flames.
When the fact became appar
ent that the fire department was
utterly powerless to handle the |
Irapidly spreading conflagra
tion the switch engines in the
^rds began removing the hun
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dreds of freight cars which stood
upon the tracks, the engines
from the Batesville passenger
and No. 12 also being pressed
into service to get all the mova
ble property out of the way of
flames and the millions of flying
sparks and firebrands. The
coaches of the branch passenger
were also removed and only two
box car3 were lost, both being
loaded.
THE BURNED BUILDINGS.
The Anderson elevator, where
the fire originated, was owned
and occupied by the Newport
Wholesale Grocer Company, stood
about midway between the main
line track of the Iron Mountain
and White river, and was a four
story frame structure built there
several years ago for a grain ele
vator. but more recently has
been used as a store-room and
warehouse by the grocer com
pany.
The beer house, as it was
known, was the property of the
Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Company
of St. Louis and used as a ware
house for the product of that
brewery by the agent here, J. E.
Doherty.
The Iron Mountain freight de
pot, opposite the elevator, was a
long one-story building, standing
between the switching tracks.
The pumping plant was just
across a single track from the
depot, and furnished water from
the river to the tank and up
right water pipes, from which
every engine on the road was
supplied.
The mammoth elevator and
warehouse on the bank of the
river was also railroad property
and used for storage of freight
either to or from the boats ply
ing in White river.
THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
The Anderson building was
valued at $10,000 and was in
sured for $6,000. The loss on
the stock is $75,000, with insu
rance amounting to $70,000. All
the companies sustainirlg losses
are represented by the Phillips
& Ferguson agency.
The Lemp building was in
sured, also by the Phillips & Fer
guson agency, for $1,200, while
$1,000 was carried on the con
tents.
Freight Agent Robinson esti
mated that there was about $6,
000 worth of freight in the depot
and stated that insurance was
carried on all the railroad prop
erty destroyed, but was unable
to give the exact figures.
THE FIRE’S ORIGIN.
The origin of the costly fire of
Monday night is a complete mys
tery and will probably remain so.
There had been no fire about the
building, and when first discov
ered was bursting from the roof
in great sheets of flame.
But little was saved from any
of the burning buildings. A
small part of the brewery stock
was rolled out, and the books,
freight bills and a piano were
saved from the freight depot.
TO REBUILD AT ONCE.
A. G. Anderson of the New
port Grocer Company stated on
Tuesday morning that his firm
would rebuild at once, and that
their business would not be ma
terially interfered with.
The freight depot and pump-,
ing plant will also be reconstruct
ed immediately, while the beer
house will in all probability be
replaced before hot weather.
MURDER THEORY
NOT SUSTAINED.
Exploding Lamp is Now Given
as Means of Dr. Lightle’s
Death at Searcy.
—
About 12:30 Sunday night
Marshal Bob Jones discovered
the wood shed of Dr. R. G. ;
Lightle on fire and at once hast
ened to the scene, says the Sear
cy Citizen. Messrs. T. E. Prew
ett, Sam Brassfield, Eugene Cy
pert and others saw the fire and
were soon on the spot. Upon
reaching there the men discov
ered an odor, the like of which
they had never before smelled
and upon looking closely found
something that they thought
looked like a bone. Procuring a
long pole, they struck the object
and discovered that it was a
human being. After pouring
about fifty buckets of water on it
they succeeded in dragging the
burned object from the flames,
but not until both arms and both
legs were entirely burned off and
the brain exposed. So badly
was the body mutilated that rec
ognition was impossible. A short;
time ago Dr. Stilwell had done
some dental work for Dr. Lightle
and this wPrk was identified by
Dr. Stilwell, also some article of
clothing that he had seen him
wear. His watch, physicians’
thermometer and keys aided in
the identification. Mr. Barton
Watkins left him at 11 o’clock
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ictsu mgiic anu j-Ji, ic
marked to him that he could not
retire until he filled his lamp.
The supposition is that he went
out of the back door with his
lamp to the wood shed to fill it
and that there the lamp exploded
and the shock from the explosion
caused him to fall on the wood,
where he was burned to death.
The back door of the house was
found open, the cover turned
down, and his cuffs and hat lying
on the bed, every indication
points to the fact that he was
ready to retire. It was hoped f< r
some time that he had been
called out, being a practicing
physician, but when time passed
on and he still did not return and
the above identification being
made, nothing could be done but
accept the facts and submit to
the inevitable.
Dr. Lightle was a member of
a very prominent family in Sear
cy, president of the Board of
Health, deacon in the Presbyte
rian church and a practicing
physician. The whole of Searcy
mourn with the family because
of the horrible fate of this useful
young man. Mrs. Lightle has
been telephoned for and will
arrive tonight at 8:30. His re
mains will probably be laid to
rest tomorrow morning.
To his wife and two little;
daughters who are away on a
visit to relatives, we extend our
deepest sympathy, also to the
poor bereaved mother, sister and
brother.
A. Mortensen , has moved his
cleaning and pressing shop to the
newly remodeled building oppo
site city jail, 86dtf
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LEWISVILLE MAN
A BANKRUPT.
Lewisville, May 23.—Henry C.
Smith, a hardware and furniture
merchant of this city, today filed
a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy before Referee Sevier at
Texarkana and asked that he be
adjudged a bankrupt. He lists
his assets at $3,000 and his lia
bilities at about $3,500. June 2
has been set as the day for sell
ing the stock, which comprises
all that there is listed as avail
able assets.
DROWNED IN WHITE RIVER.
Augusta, May 23.—Ed Rider,
an old citizen of Augusta, is sup
posed to have been drowned
Friday while working on a log
boom in White river. He had
been complaining of illness dur
ing the morning and in the after
noon his spike pole was found
lying in a position to indicate
that its owner had fallen into
the river. The body has not yet
been recovered.
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