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THE FIRE TRAGEDY AT ST. LOUIS
St. Louis is the latest city to shock the country with a holocaust. It comes, too, with all the revolting features incident to the most appalling disasters that have preceded it. The loss of more than thirty human lives is sufficiently terrible to render the property loss unworthy of mention. The scene of this awful tragedy was the Missouri Athlete Club Building, located on the corner of Washington avenue and Fourth street.
Twenty-eight Lives Lost in Boston Lodging House
Twenty-eight men lost their lives and injured in a cheap lodging house fire in Boston on December 2. The holocaust took place at 2 o’clock a. m. in the Hotel Arcadia, a 15, 20 and 25 cent all-night lodging house at 1202 Washington street, corner of Laconia street, in the center of the South End tenement section. The building was constructed of brick, five stories high, with a mansard roof and covers 3,900 square feet of ground, with an 80-foot frontage on Washington street and an L in the rear.
NEW YORK’S LATEST HOLOCAUST
The fire on the three top floors of the ten-story factory building at Washington Place and Green street last Saturday afternoon, at which time approximately 160 men and women were burned or crushed to death, further emphasizes the necessity of maintaining discipline among employes in times of extreme emergency.
Closing Chapter of the Chicago Stockyards Fire
A look back at the devastating Chicago stockyards fire of 1910, which killed nearly two dozen Chicago firefighters.