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Fort Worth mourns hero of fiery disaster

By Bartee Haile After standing-room-only services in a large local church on Jun. 5, 1890, Fort Worth’s 23,000 residents paid silent tribute to the town’s first true hero by lining the route to the cemetery or walking behind the

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casket to the grave where Alfred S. Hayne was laid to rest.

Even in a frontier community where all but the youngest came from somewhere else, the Englishman was an unusual…

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