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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1927-09-16


    • Trapped victim hops to safety - workers prevent spreading of blaze to timber

    • 1927

    • Trapped victim hops to safety - workers prevent spreading of blaze to timber - Separate fires destroyed the John Bell home at Haines and the Bell & Son Lumber company at Bulger flat. One of Bell's sons, Alfred, escaped from the burning home early...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1927-09-16
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1937-01-05


    • Mill destroyed by double fire

    • 1937

    • Mill destroyed by double fire - Two fires last night destroyed the old Tamarack mill on Canyon creek near Wallace, which was abandoned years ago. The mill was not considered of much, if any value, and it is said the company had planned to tear it...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1937-01-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Fires. 1937-01-06


    • Mill destroyed by double fire.

    • 1937

    • Mill destroyed by double fire. - Two fires last night destroyed the old Tamarack mill on Canyon creek near Wallace, which was abandoned years ago. The mill was not considered of much, if any value, and it is said the company had planned to tear it...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Fires. 1937-01-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Arson. 1936-08-02


    • Whites instigate Indians set S. D. forest fires

    • 1936

    • Whites instigate Indians set S. D. forest fires. - B. D. Mintener, state justice department superintendent, expressed belief today that "a few fanatics" are responsible for the series of fires on the Rosebud Indian reservation.
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Arson. 1936-08-02
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-08-15


    • Wind-fanned flames leave a total $20,000 loss for Grand Coulee

    • 1935

    • Wind-fanned flames leave a total $20,000 loss for Grand Coulee. - Three business structures in the dam site were only ashes and blackened timbers today after a blaze started in a cleaning and dyeing plant razed them Wednesday evening.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-08-15
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1915-10-17


    • Milan mill fire loss is $125,000 - plant of Spokane lumber company destroyed in early morning blaze

    • 1915

    • Milan mill fire loss is $125,000 - plant of Spokane lumber company destroyed in early morning blaze - The entire plant of the Spokane Lumber company was burned this morning at 1:30, with a loss of approximately $125,000. The loss was covered with...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1915-10-17
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1919-06-18


    • Lumber company loses big mill

    • 1919

    • Lumber company loses big mill - The sawmill of the Fischer-Scorgy Lumber company, situated here, was destroyed by fire early tonight with an estimated loss of $100,000, with $50,000 insurance. After the plant had closed for the day, an explosion,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1919-06-18
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1920-06-18


    • Russel & Pugh lumber mil hit by $50,000 blaze - spark carries big loss- school burned- large piles of lumber lost

    • 1920

    • Russel & Pugh lumber mil hit by $50,000 blaze - spark carries big loss- school burned- large piles of lumber lost - Fire, thought to have been caused by a vagrant spark, completely destroyed the Russell & Pugh lumber mill at Springston Idaho, this...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1920-06-18
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1920-08-19


    • Bonners Ferry lumber co. suffers loss of much of its valuable stock

    • 1920

    • Bonners Ferry lumber co. suffers loss of much of its valuable stock - About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning a fire of unknown origin was discovered in the north select lumber shed in the yards of the Bonners Ferry Lumber company. The fire destroyed many...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1920-08-19
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1922-09-12


    • Astoria mill loss $1,000,000

    • 1922

    • Astoria mill loss $1,000,000 - The mill and kilns of the Hammond Lumber company here were destroyed by fire tonight, entailing a loss of about $1,000,000, according to preliminatry estimates of the damage. More than 500 men will be thrown out of...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1922-09-12
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1923-04-24


    • $300,000 sawmill blaze - fire destroys Columbia county lumber plant at St. Helens, Ore.

    • 1923

    • $300,000 sawmill blaze - fire destroys Columbia county lumber plant at St. Helens, Ore. - Fire today destroyed the sawmill of the Columbia County Lumber company, one mile above here on the Willamette slough, wiped out a trestle and a pile of...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1923-04-24
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1923-10-07


    • Harrison shingle mill burns - fire causes $15,000 loss, partly covered by insurance

    • 1923

    • Harrison shingle mill burns - fire causes $15,000 loss, partly covered by insurance - The Harrison shingle mill, owned and operated by H. A. Lanmeister, was destroyed by fire at 1 a. m. today. The mill was built during the fall of 1921 and spring...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1923-10-07
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1924-04-09


    • Oregon town has disastrous blaze

    • 1924

    • Oregon town has disastrous blaze - Two hundred and fifty persons were made homeless and loss amounting to $100,000 was caused by fire that swept Brighton today. The fire was first discovered in a bunk house and in a few minutes, favored by a stiff...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1924-04-09
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1928-07-12


    • Millions of feet of timber burn

    • 1928

    • Millions of feet of timber burn - Fire of undetermined origiin destroyed 10,000,000 feet of timber in the lumber yard of the Eqauna Box company- Klamath's largest mill- and for a time seriously threatened the entire inside industrial district of...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1928-07-12
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1928-07-25


    • City's industry is burned down - mill at Troy, Mont., destroyed- main source of employment

    • 1928

    • City's industry is burned down - mill at Troy, Mont., destroyed- main source of employment - Troy's chief industry, the sawmill of the Sandpoint Lumber and Coal company, went up in smoke when the structure was destroyed by fire last night.
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1928-07-25
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1931-08-03


    • Fire hits again in lumber yard - 400,000 lath destroyed at the Blackwell plant at Coeur d'Alene - thousands look on - comes two weeks to hour after Winton lumber blaze - incendiraism suspected

    • 1931

    • Fire hits again in lumber yard - 400,000 lath destroyed at the Blackwell plant at Coeur d'Alene - thousands look on - comes two weeks to hour after Winton lumber blaze - incendiraism suspected - Two weeks, almost to the hour, from the outbreak of...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1931-08-03

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