Hastings, Nebraska Fire
July 16, 1881
A fire Saturday afternoon destroyed the
post-office block and a dozen stores, comprising
the best part of the town of Hastings, Neb.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD 18 Jul 1881
The fire of July 16, 1881,
originated in Davis’
drug store, destroying that building, with
Altschul’s,
Binderup’s,
Jorgensen’s,
Dietrich’s (occupied by
Nowlan) buildings and much valuable
property. The insurance carried amounted to
$19,750. This disastrous fire destroyed the
block between Second and Third Streets and
Hastings and Denver Avenues.
Cole’s
circus was here; the thermometer registered 103
degrees in the shade, and the town was full of
visitors. The circus men aided the fire
department, but the natural and artificial heat
made the atmosphere so oppressive that numbers
of the workers fell insensible, leaving the
flames to devour everything save the
Forgy building on Second Street and
Denver Avenue.
Biographical and historical memoirs of
Adams, Clay, Webster and Nuckolls Counties,
Nebraska, Chicago: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1890
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