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Business Block Burns: Damage At $200,000 - Early Morning Blaze Destroys Four Places; One Fireman Is Dead November 20, 1950
Driver Cavett, 45, Dies During Fire - Collapsed In Run From Falling Wall November 20, 1950
Tragedy, Pathos And Humor…

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Thar She Goes - Spectacular aftermath of Monday's $250,000 fire here occurred in the afternoon when front walls of two gutted buildings were knocked down. Shown toppling here are the shells of the South Main Furniture Company (center) and…

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Top Floor Falls - Here the fourth floor of the L.H. Katelman company building buckles and starts its fall to South Main Street. The third-floor front of the building, for the most part, fell inward. A fireman can barely be seen atop the…

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Fire Damage . . . seem from the alley entrance on First Avenue includes burned-out Jensen Apartments wall rubble in alley (center), and shell of Brooder Supply Company warehouse (far right).

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Crushed Truck . . . becomes a platform…

Hasty Evacuation . . . is made by Earl R. Andersen, 207 West Washington Avenue, as he carries belongings from the apartment of his mother, Mrs. Carl O. Anderson, 98 Fourth Street. Scores of apartment dwellers fled the flames.

Fireman William D. Cavett . . . receives first aid at the fire scene from the Rev. Arthur Farrell and Acting Postmaster Kenneth A. Madigan.

Shortly After Start . . . of early-morning blaze, firemen battle flames from entrance to Nonpareil Court. Fire and smoke billow from the Katelman hardware store (tallest building at right center) while the fire ladder is run to the Morphy Drug…