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The Bangor Fire started in a hay shed on Broad Street, at 4:10 PM, Sunday, April 30, 1911. High wind carried burning brands diagonally across Kenduskeag Stream and ignited a shed in the rear of The Fairbanks Company, on Exchange Street, and almost at the same time one of the steeples of the Universalist Church on Center Street. In a few minutes the wooden buildings in the rear of Exchange Street were a furnace, the intense heat and flames from which, swept onward by the wind, fairly melted everything before them, leaping from one large block to another with great rapidity.
Publication Date
1911
Publisher
Frank E. Davis
City
Bangor, Maine
Keywords
Bangor fire, Bangor Maine, Bangor Maine early 20th century, Bangor Maine photographs
Recommended Citation
Whipple, Leyland, "Views of Bangor's Big Fire, April 30, 1911" (1911). Books and Publications. 200.
https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/200
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