The Milln Dollar Fire stroyed two blocks of Gay Street 1897.
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- ‘MILLN DOLLAR FIRE’ STROYED TWO BLOCKS OF GAY STREET APRIL 1897
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
‘MILLN DOLLAR FIRE’ STROYED TWO BLOCKS OF GAY STREET APRIL 1897
* gay street fire *
On April 8, 1897, when a fire began near and then raced up the elevator shaft of Hotel Knox Gay Street's 400 block. "Huge balls of fire fell like snowflak" wrote one newspaper as flam spread to buildgs north and south on Gay Street's east si. It was nearly eight hours before the fire burned out, leavg most of Gay Street north of Unn smolrg s.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Wh mut they heard a crack om the rear of the three-story woon buildg at 402-408 Gay St. Davis spotted a fire between the hotel office and the first-floor McNulty Grocery that shared the hotel's 402 Gay St.
Dgstore at Gay and Unn. Only two buildgs on the east si of Gay's 300 and 400 blocks remaed. Only a vant buildg at 316 Gay stood.
At 412-414 Gay, Sterchi Brothers' four story bs and $30, 000 of furnure, rpets and home goods were stroyed. Pag for the first Universy of Tennsee yet-to-be-published yearbook were ash at the 416 Gay St. Fire explod dyname the 424 Gay St.