History of Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Fort Worth, a post-village, capital of Tarrant co., Tex., on the West Fork of the Trinity River, 32 miles by rail W. of Dallas. It has 19 churches, 7 banks, 9 news paper offices, high and public schools, manufactures of woollen and cotton goods, a packing-house, and a brewery. Pop. in 1890, 23,076.

Latest Particulars of the Death of Charlie Howell

Charlie Norvell was a young man between 17 and 18 years of age. He was a farmer and trader and lived with his father, one brother and three sisters one mile southwest of town.

Yesterday Charlie was sitting on his horse near the court house fence on the square here during a thunderstorm, when a flash of lightning instantly killed him and his horse.

The young man never drew a breath after he was stricken, and the horse scarcely moved a muscle.

Physicians from different portions of the square were quickly by the side of the unfortunate young man, but all pronounced life extinct. A large crowd collected, and friends bore him to a table in the court house to await the coming of his father, whose grief at the unexpected occurence can be imagined.

Charlie was conveyed to his father's residence and will be buried today.

Several men standing near were knocked down but were not seriously hurt, and the Morris hardware house...

Santa Fe-Central Station Badly Damaged.
Business Is Going On As Usual.
Roof Burned Off of Main Building, But Walls and Side Rooms are intact-Fire Started in Boiler Room and Climbed Wall to Roof. Details of the Catastrophe-Uninjured Portion Rearranged.

The beautiful union station of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Houston and Texas Central railroads on Jones Street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, was badly damaged by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. The roof of the main building was entirely destroyed, and while the walls are intact, much of the decorations were injured by the fire, smoke and water. The alarm was given at 5:35, engines in the yards whistling vigorously in addition to the alarm of the department. The fire raged for nearly two hours, but by 7:30 it was entirely extinguished.

The fire originated in the boiler room in the basement of the south end of the building. While it is now positively known it was due to wooden boxing that had been recently ...

Of a dozen wedding guests injured by the collapse of the vestibule ceiling at the Broadway Baptist Church Tuesday night, just after the wedding of Miss Edna Mae Potts and Robert W. Wilson, one victim alone was running around, laughing and playing Wednesday.

She is Miss Elizabeth Darrah, 5-year-old daughter of R. R. Darrah, 2125 Edwin avenue, Mistletoe Heights. Elizabeth was buried alive by the tumbling plaster and she said Wednesday that she enjoyed it after it was all over.

Elizabeth might not have been buried, but she was so little she couldn't help herself. When Mrs. Darrah went to the child's little bed early Wednesday morning. Elizabeth's eyes were wide open.

"Mamma," she asked wonderingly, "how did you get me out of that, anyway?"

All the other victims of the accident were resting well Wednesday, but two of them, Miss Mabel Stephens, 1412 Illinois avenue, and Mrs. J. R. Jester, 708 May street, wife of the pastor of the Broadway Church, were still in pain. They were...

Fort Worth, a city, capital of Tarrant co., Tex., on the West Fork of the Trinity River, 30 miles W. of Dallas, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas and Pacific and other railroads. It has foundries and machine-shops, grain- elevators, packing-houses, tanneries, breweries, and manufactures of flour, woollen and cotton goods, cotton-seed oil, agricultural implements, etc. It has a large stock-yard, and is the seat of a polytechnic college, the Fort Worth University, and the Fort Worth Medical College. Pop. in 1890, 23,076 ; in 1900, 26,688.