Aberdeen Fire 1903, looking west from Heron Bridge — 1903 — #45448_1
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United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
John C. Hughes' "On the Harbor : From Black Friday to Nirvana" notes that the Aberdeen Fire started in a rooming house, the Arctic Hotel, on the morning of Friday, October 16, 1903 and burned until 2pm, destroying 140 buildings on seven city blocks. Damages were estimated at $600,000 (the equivalent of about $10 million dollars in 2007). Four residents of the Arctic Hotel perished in the fire. On Heron Street the Boston Oyster House, Evans Drug Co., George Fisher's clothing store, the Modern Restaurant, the Fogel & Gross clothing store, the Capital Saloon and the Fashion Saloon were badly damaged or destroyed while the Gabrielson & Holmer Grocery, the Humboldt Saloon, Maley's cigar factory and other buildings survived the fire.
