Iowa

Dubuque, IA Julian Hotel Fire, Apr 1910

Julian Hotel, 1909 photo from familyoldphotos.com Julian Hotel, rebuilt after the fire, photo from familyoldphotos.com

MANY HURT IN HOTEL FIRE.

Men and Women Jumped from Windows or Were Trapped in Falling Staircase.  read more »

Kellogg, IA Business District Fire In Town, Sept 1908

$100,000 FIRE AT KELLOGG, IA.

BUSINESS DISTRICT OF PROSPEROUS TOWN ALMOST GONE.  read more »

Hendrick, IA Skunk River Drowning, Aug 1902

HENDRICK.---Ellsworth Miller, a 19 year old boy, was drowned in the Skunk river near the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway bridge yesterday.  read more »

Fremont, IA Skunk River Drowning, Aug 1902

FREMONT.----A. G. Cromer, a young man who came here recently from Batesville, Ark., was drowned in the Skunk river Sunday. Cromer was in bathing with seven others and was caught in a whirlpool.  read more »

Eagle Grove, IA Explosion In Downtown, Feb 1973

The two stores that exploded are the first two on the right

BLAST ROCKS EAGLE GROVE.

FEAR VICTIMS IN RUINS OF STORE, CAFE.

FIRES ERUPT AFTER EXPLOSION.  read more »

Various Towns, IA, NE, IL Tornado Damage, May 1899

Iowa Tornado

WORK OF THE WIND.

SEVERAL DISASTROUS STORMS REPORTED IN THE WEST.

ONE AT LINCOLN, ILL.  read more »

Dubuque, IA Devastating Fire At Hotel Canfield, June 1946

HOTEL FIRE DEATH TOLL NOW 16.

IDENTIFIED DEAD AND LIST OF MISSING IN FIRE AT DUBUQUE.

Dubuque, Ia. -- (AP) -- The identified dead in the fire at the Hotel Canfield Sunday:  read more »

Waverly, IA Canning Factory Goes Up In Flames, Aug 1909

Kelley Canning Factory Blaze Canning Factory Fire

SYMPATHY EXPRESSED TO WAVERLY OVER ITS SEVERE INDUSTRIAL LOSS.  read more »

Sioux City, IA Hotel Block Destroyed By Blaze, Jan 1912

Hotel On Fire Hotel On Fire

$400,000 FIRE AT SIOUX CITY.

MONDAMIN HOTEL BLOCK WAS DESTROYED.

JOSEPH A. TODD, FORMERLY OF WATERLOO, IS AMONG THE LOSERS.  read more »

Sioux City, IA Train - Streetcar Wreck, Oct 1912

FATAL STREET CAR WRECK.  read more »


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