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Only disaster left Norwalk wiser after three city fires
The Norwalk history recalls three great calamities from 1888 1908 and 1923. A 1888 blaze on Benedict Avenue destroyed 25 blocks nearly leveled the town and forced a late night firefighting push while water pressure failed. In 1908 a Wheeling and Lake Erie shop fire gutted key industry wiping out main buildings and injuring workers. The 1923 Glass Block blast at Main and Benedict collapsed the five story store causing two deaths and eleven injuries.
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Norwalk
Benedict Avenue
Seminary Street
Eddy
Central Telephone Exchange
Salvation Army
Cleveland
Seminary St
James Smith
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Smith
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Main and
Benedict
Monroeville
Harding