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Title: Chain of Rocks Park Fire
Date: 1977-05-31, 1977-06-01
Description: Amusement park fire under inquiry: Firemen, silhouetted against blazing amusement rides at the Chain of Rocks Fun Fair Park, fight the fire which caused an estimated $180,000 in damage.

Title: Burning of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" at St. Louis, September 19
Description: This lithograph illustrated the destruction of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" from September 19, 1877 when the steamboats caught fire and burned to the shore. The boats were shown shrouded in smoke and engulfed in flames as men rushed back and forth along the shore in an attempt to extinguish the fire.

Title: Chain of Rocks Park Fire
Date: 1977-05-31
Description: Photograph of the aftermath of the 1977 fire that destroyed several of the older rides in Chain of Rocks Amusement Park.

Title: Old Boatmen's Bank Building - Fire and Collapse
Date: 1949-10-30, 1965-02-7
Description: "For days after the fire, police maintained special details to keep the curious from the ruins. Then eight days later, the proud structure, once hailed for its graceful architectural lines and fort-like appearance, claimed six more lives when a wall fell on the adjoining St. Louis Seed Company building. Rest of walls were then levelled by dynamite."

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Trash Fire
Date: 1976-04-12
Description: "Trash fire in a railroad car at the Anheuser-Busch brewery is extinguished Saturday by fireman Kenneth Nienhaus."

Title: St. Louis Business Directory
Date: 1850
Description: of business advertising cards. In addition to the directory, it contains an Almanac to the city of St. Louis for the year 1850, and a detailed account of many local events of 1849, including the Great Fire and the Asiatic cholera outbreak.

Title: Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of St. Louis, MO
Date: 1850-01-08
Description: This document contains the fourth annual report of the Mercantile Library Association written in January of 1850 about the year 1849.

Title: Timberlake Apartments - Fire escape
Date: 1985-05-25, 1985-05-25
Description: "Scott Schwartz, an employee at the Timberlake Apartments, trying out the fire escape. The storage area on the left was also in violation (of fire safety laws)."

Title: Timberlake Apartments - Notice of fire safety violation
Date: 1985-04-05, 1985-04-05
Description: Notice of condemnation due to fire safety violations on a door in the Timberlake apartment complex.

Title: Timberlake Apartments - Apartment damaged by fire, exterior
Date: 1985-04-05, 1985-04-05
Description: "Concern over Timberlake: Kirkwood officials said Thursday that the city apparently allowed construction of the Timberlake Apartments complex in the late 1960s in violation of fire and building codes that were in effect then. As a result, city officials probably will ask a St. Louis County judge Monday to decide whether about 100 tenants in 47 units should be evicted from the complex because of

Title: Illustrations of the Southern Hotel Fire in 1877 in St. Louis, Mo
Description: Text from various works surrounds illustrations of a fire that broke out in the Southern Hotel on the morning of April 11th, 1877. The text and captions are in German. The illustrations deal mainly with the victims of the fire and their rescuers.

Title: Globe-Democrat Building Fire
Date: 1984-02-17
Description: "Fire on 2nd floor of the Globe-Democrat building." Fire trucks are parked on the street in front of the building.

Title: Fire in the Globe-Democrat Building
Date: 1984-02-17
Description: "Firefighters walk past a pile of smoldering hats thrown from a hat company's second-floor storage area during a small fire in the Globe-Democrat building Friday."

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