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Aberdeen's Black Friday Fire Deepens City’s Resolve
A devastating blaze on October 16 1903 destroyed about twenty acres of Aberdeen's business district. Originating in the Mack building on Hume street the fire killed three inmates and left three hundred homeless. Firefighters from Aberdeen Hoquiam Cosmopolis and Montesano fought the flames as blocks of wooden structures burned and key banks and hotels were lost. The city later adopted a fire limit to curb wooden buildings and eyed brick and stone rebuilding to attract outside capital and reduce insurance costs.
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Arctic Hotel
Aberdeen
Mack
Hume Street
Daniel Webster
Walker
Aberdeen General Hospital
George Rolf
Samuel Kirkup
L. W. Walker
F. G. Heron
Hume
Meron Street
Wishkah
Market Street
N. G. Kaufman
Smits Drug Co
Aberdeen State Bank
Heron Street
Broadway
Market Streets
Wolff
F Street
Grays Harbor Music Co
City Livery Stable
Ed, Hulburt
Opera House
Wishkah Street
G Street
Central School
Meron
Wishkah Streets
John Young
C. A. Beardsley
Jacob Kyser
Market
J.W. Carey
F.A. Hart
Hoquiam
Cosmopolis
Montesano
Colin McKenzie
Union Transfer Co
Eagle Dance Hall
St. Joseph’s Hospits
J.D. Hanson
Koehler
John Steen
W. Lacy
A. Bretburg
John Milla
Wm. Oglesby
Pacific Hotel
Crescent Hotel
Keane
Kaufman
the Pacific
Home Department
West
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Olympia
Anstie
Pacific Coast
Herato