Miami, FL Hotel Fire, Nov 1889
Fire in Miami, Fla.
MIAMI, Fla., Nov.13.----Fire Sunday destroyed the Hotel Miami, the office of the Metropolitan and a number of other buildings, causing a loss of $60,000, partially insured.
Lima News, Lima, OH 13 Nov 1899
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LOSSES BY FIRE
MIAMI, Fla., Nov.12.----The Miami Hotel a wooden building of 100 rooms, Mrs. Maggie Knapp's restaurant, owned by J. C. Gildewell; the Greet store and boarding house, the Miami Metropolis Building, and Joseph McDonald's machine shops and stables were burned to-day. The fire started from the extension of a gas stove in the hotel. The total loss is $60,750; insurance about $18,000.
The New York Times, New York, NY 13 Nov 1899
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