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0?.rAT FI^ OF SCV^Vj&rt 1907
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VPA - 1937 "Pea Coast ?cho? - Nov. 16, 1907
Conflagratinr; originating frotf unknown causes destroyed a business portion of ?3av ct. T ouis including ft. Joseph's Academy an^ c~
Losses '?i.ll.reech over '*'550,000.
The fire originated in the Bay Mercantile Co. building on the ground floor of the Operat House ovned ty John Csoinach.
Buildings burned and damaged:	:
SCoera House	:
^Clifton Hotel S studio of Chas. A. Butler
k Residence and business of A. \?einberg	*
?p":t. Joseph Academy
Church of Our Tr?dy of the Oulf yCatholic Rectory ?*--
* Pl-nchet Building occupied by King's I -"Ughters ' Public
library
v F. Delillur- Store ? Thorr.as ~eed r'rug Store Office of Dr. Turner ?"Three buildings owned by r'rs. Planchet i/Viss Josie ??.'alch's Kevs F-tar.d **??
/j. Vlatts1 Machine Shop	*
t/Thos. V. r.vans Drug Store
v.;ith this conflagration is ivined away one of the oldest lrndirarks:	^filher	Leducc'.S^t?iUiJLlfu.l Church of Cur I.ady ..QlLJ^iig^Gulf
with its four dTn'Te^?^to'vn clock anron Mrs. Schiller), which for all these	years-sounded the	different
events	- joyous and solemn - as vss	their	office to	do.
There vas something almost human vhen the church clock struck 7:30 just as the steeple which encased it cr?-mtled and fell.