The Great 1910 Wampum Fire

    It was close to midnight on a Monday night when the peaceful night air was broken with the fearful cries of “Fire!” The men and women of Wampum ran from their homes to discover A. Moser Clothing Store erupting in flames. The flames completely consumed the store then moved onto the nearby schoolhouse, leaving but a pile of charcoal and ash.
    The fire was not done with Wampum yet as the flames spread to J.C. Davidson’s Drug Store. The men that were awaken by the desperate cries fought vigorously against the fire and saved some of the goods from the store, but the building itself was reduced to only four blackened bare walls. The church next to the drug store only just survived the ravaging inferno thanks to the exhaustive and heroic actions of the citizens of Wampum that night.
    Remarkably, despite the towering flames, walls caving in, and even one man falling from the roof of a building, no one was gravely injured. Though everyone escaped with their lives, the fire was devastating to the small town of Wampum. Davidson’s Drug Store was the busiest store in town in that day and losing the school was a big loss.

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