Fire damage, Oct. 16 1903 — 10/17/1903 — #4681_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Paper caption pasted to print reads "4222 - Aberdeen Fire October 17, 1903. The Mack Building where Fire started alley between F & G Sts. on River Road." 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.
