Fairbanks, AK Fire, May 1906 - Business Section Destroyed
Posted September 14th, 2008 by Jenni Lanham
BUSINESS PART OF FAIRBANKS BURNS
Fire Fighters Make a Heroic Stand in the Big Warehouse Where Supplies Are Kept But Result is in Doubt.
SEATTLE, May 22 – A special to the Post-Intelligencer tonight states that the entire business section of the town of Fairbanks, Alaska, was destroyed by a fire which started in the Fairbanks building, a three story structure, at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Details of the disaster are very meager, but it is feared that the food supply of the town has been destroyed and great suffering may result.
Nothing was left standing in the section lying between the water front and Third avenue and Stavey and Turner streets. The work of the fire fighters is centered on the block of warehouses owned by the Northern Commercial Company, in order to protect the food supply of the town and the result is still in doubt.
The loss is estimated at a million dollars and it is announced that the heavier business interests of the town are already planning to rebuild. No lives were lost.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno NV 23 May 1906
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