Fort Worth Horror: The Great South Side Fire of 1909

Fort Worth Library 500 W. Third St., Fort Worth

Many of the great cities of the world, including Rome, London, Lisbon, Chicago, and San Francisco, have endured devastating peacetime fires. Fort Worth joined that tragic company on April 3, 1909, when two boys experimenting with cigarettes on a windy spring day led to a barn catching fire. By the time the conflagration was under... Read more »