People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — FATAL FIRE AT PARIS, TEX. [ARTICLE]

FATAL FIRE AT PARIS, TEX.

One Killed and Two Hurt —Firemen Injured by Falling Walls. Paris, Tex., April 29. —A disastrous fire, involving loss of life and $250,000 worth of property, broke out in the three-story building of J. K. Bywaters on South Main street at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. In a short time the flames spread to the warehouse of M. F. Allen & Co., the Clements building and Hotel Peterson. The fire raged until 7 o’clock, when the firemen succeeded in getting it under control. The dead: SAULSMAN, JOHN; suffocated and consumed. The injured: Ramsey, H. H.; will die. Rootchell, Louis. There is a suspicion that Saulsman was murdered and the building set on fire to conceal the crime. Officers are investigating. Later, while the firemen were playing on the flames, a wall fell, crushing S. H. Ramsey and Louis Rootchell, the former fatally and the latter seriously.