Long Island, Kansas Fire
May
13, 1909
M'Cook, Neb., May 13. - - Fire visited Long
Island, Kansas, about midnight
 Wednesday
night, destroying approximately one hundred
thousand dollars in buildings and merchandise
originating in an unknown way in the Whiter
Furniture Company Building. Four other
buildings and blocks were destroyed with their
contents. The buildings destroyed were:
Whitten Furniture Store,
Atkin's Hardware Store,
the Lloyd Building,
Buck Block and a restaurant.
James Scott was severely injured, being crushed
and suffering a severe scalp wound, as was also
another citizen, whose name is unknown.
The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE
14 May 1909
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