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20 Megan Mary Olander Florists
21 The Central
22 J & M Café
24 Dutch Ned
26 88 Keys
GREAT SEATTLE FIRE
On June 6, 1889, John E. Back, a worker in Victor Clairmont’s cabinetmaking shop near the old Front Street and Madison Avenue, was making glue in a hot glue pot. The glue boiled over starting a fire on the shop’s wooden floor. The fire soon spread to the wood chips and turpentine covering the floor. But, the small shop fire combined with many other elements to create the tragedy of the Great Seattle Fire.
The tragedy of the great fire might not have happened if…
If the neighboring building wasn’t a supply shop storing ammo, gun powder, and dynamite.
If the fire hadn’t spread to a warehouse that had received fifty barrels of whiskey just an hour earlier.
If the fire chief had not been out of town at a firefighters’ convention in San Francisco.
If the fire trucks had not gotten stuck in the mud flats.
If a poor water-pump system hadn’t failed to maintain water pressure for the firefighters’ hoses.
If (unbelievably true) the city officials hadn’t asked young men to use dynamite to blow up the buildings surrounding the fire. Granted, they hoped to contain the fire by removing some of these structures, but these young men were blowing up buildings already on fire, spreading burning rubble.
