Business Block Burns; Damage At $200,000 - Early Morning Blaze Destroys Four Places; One Fireman Is Dead

Business Block Burns; Damage At $200,000 - Early Morning Blaze Destroys Four Places; One Fireman Is Dead

Local news

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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 ladder, leaning against the Morphy Drug Company building.

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Injured Fireman Earl Hansen . . . is aided by Capt. Jack Cochran, Driver Robert Madigan and E.W. Olsen of 100 Fourth Street.

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Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Katelman . . . watch their hardware store go up in flames. Man at right is unidentified.

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Daily Nonpareil November 20, 1950

Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

1950-11-20

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