Fires & destruction
Major fires that erased records or moved settlement footprints — useful for explaining record gaps and dating photographs.
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Image 1 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), March 14, 1905 (1905) "destroyed by fire"
…ISLATIVE ASSEMBLY HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST Five Story Teniment House in New York City Destroyed by Fire MEN ttBTHE HOUR v IN NEW MEXICO INVOLVES BIG ESTATE The Stsry Deals With New Mexico the Plaintiff Claiming Silver City as Her Birthplace In the Superior Court at El Paso be fore Judge Wilbur is now b…
Image 5 of San Antonio light (San Antonio, Tex.), December 30, 1911, (CITY EDITION) (1911) "destroyed by fire"
…Vwt CawaaKs StrMt SAN ANTBNIO TEXAS 9 99HMH99MHBBHHBMHBD9MBH9B WN NMDIKE HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE Together With Eagles Club Room Gocn Up at Early Morning Hour No Lives Were Lost BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO Tex Dec 30 The whole sale produce house of V Kemendo and the Eagles club rooms burned at 2…