Detroit, Michigan Fire
September 17, 1884
A Serious Blaze in Detroit
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 18.- Fire broke out
yesterday afternoon in Thomas Moore’s planing-mill
on High street. Delbridge, Brooks & Fisher’s
planning-mill was also ignited, and the flames
soon leaped across Grand River avenue, setting
fire to Reed’s block of stores, Crapo’s lumber
yard and Engel’s brick block. A dozen or more
persons were passing along Grand avenue when the
flames leaped across there. Before they could
get out of the way several had their necks and
faces painfully blistered. About seven o’clock
this evening, as a great crowd was viewing the
ruins, a barrel of gasoline exploded. George
Barry, aged eight, and William Coleman, aged
sixteen, were badly but not dangerously burned.
Total loss about $60,000.
Decatur Morning Review, Decatur IL 19 Dec
1884
September 17. A fire
broke out about 2:30 P.M. on High Street,
between Third and Fourth Streets; it extended to
Grand River Avenue, and destroyed two planing
mills, several small stores, and six or seven
houses; the loss reaching probably $50,000.
The history of Detroit and Michigan, or,
The metropolis illustrated: chronological
cyclopaedia of the past and present, page 976
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