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Lumber Companies
Lumber Companies


April 29, 1870--Moore's Mill (1)
May 20, 1866— Booth & Shine’s sawmill (1)


August 18, 1870--Weston, Burch and Company (2)
November 17, 1868—Dickinson’s Planing Mill and Hamlin & Wagner’s Cabinet Factory (2)  


October 29, 1872--Dubuque Lumber Company (3)
April 29, 1870--Moore's Mill (3)


November 20, 1875--Iowa Lumber Company and Saw Mill (4)  
August 18, 1870--Weston, Burch and Company (4)


July 23, 1876--Dubuque Lumber Company (5)  
August 23, 1870—Key City Planing Mills and Clark & Scott’s Planing Mill (5)


March 28, 1880--C. W. Robinson Lumber Yards (6)
January 11, 1871—-Dickinson’s Planing Mill and Dubuque Cabinet Makers Association, three-story frame factory on the other side of the street. Adjoining the factories and lumberyards were four or five frame tenement houses, these were all burned. (6)


June 9, 1894--Lesure Lumber Company (the largest fire in Dubuque history) (7)
October 29, 1872--Moore's Mill (7)


Mayu 30, 1901--Dubuque Woodenware and Lumber Company (8)
November 18, 1875--Iowa Lumber Company and Saw Mill (8)  


May 26, 1911--Standard Lumber Company (9)
July 22, 1876--Dubuque Lumber Company (9)
 
June 18, 1878—shingle mill of L. P. Hough & Co. (10)
 
August 8, 1878— Lembeck’s Planing Mill (11)
 
March 28, 1880--C. W. Robinson Lumber Yards (12)
 
June 9, 1894--Lesure Lumber Company (the largest fire in Dubuque history) (13)
 
April 8, 1895-—Moore's mill yards (14)
 
April 4, 1899-—Standard Lumber Company and the Farley & Loetscher Company. (15)
 
December 30, 1899—Moore’s Mill burned to the ground (16)
 
May 30, 1901--Dubuque Woodenware and Lumber Company (17)
 
January 9, 1910-—The Meuser Lumber Company’s old planing mill, a building used principally as a store house for a number of years, was destroyed by fire (18)
 
May 26, 1911--Standard Lumber Company, Key City Furniture Company; Carr, Ryder and Adams  (19)
   
   
May 28, 1911--Standard Lumber Company, Conlon & Kearns ice house (10)
May 27, 1911--Standard Lumber Company; (20)


January 1963--Bly Lumber Company (11)
July 30, 1911—-Kretschmer Manufacturing Company, the Spahn-Rose Lumber Company, the Wieneke-Hoer Pickling Company, and the barns and hardwood lumber shed of the Farley & Loetscher Company. (21)


Nov. 6, 1979--Dubuque Chips Company (12)
April 26, 1915—Five blocks of lumberyards owned by the Carr, Ryder & Adams Company (22)
 
April 5, 1923-—Fire Thursday night threatened the destruction of the entire Carr, Ryder & Adams Company plant. (23)
 
April 25, 1924— A fire originating from a bolt of lightning struck the Peter J. Seippel Lumber Company buildings at Locust and Dodge. (24)
 
December 23, 1938—-Farley & Loetscher Company, sash & door plant experienced an explosion and fire that caused some $100,000 damage. (25)
 
January 1963--Bly Lumber Company (26)
 
Nov. 6, 1979--Dubuque Chips Company (27)




Others
Others


January 8, 1943--Rhomberg/Morris Flour Mill on Sageville Road (13)
January 1858--St. Cloud Hotel (28)


January 1858--St. Cloud Hotel (14)
September 1867--Cooper Wagon Works (29)


September 1867--Cooper Wagon Works (15)
August 8, 1884— The Key City Furniture Company’s lumberyard and warehouse burned to the ground including the office, stable and furniture. (30)


July 16, 1886--Dubuque Oat Meal Mill (16)
July 16, 1886--Dubuque Oat Meal Mill (31)


February 4, 1891--Bishop's Block (17)
February 4, 1891--Bishop's Block (32)


January 1963--Dubuque Twine Company warehouse (18)
July 10, 1891—-The planing mill of the Diamond Jo Company (33)


May 17, 1984--Clarke College (19)
August 18, 1891--Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company’s factory damaged to the extent of $30,000. (34)


August 9, 2003--St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church (20)
January 8, 1943--Rhomberg/Morris Flour Mill on Sageville Road (35)
 
January 1963--Dubuque Twine Company warehouse (36)
 
May 17, 1984--Clarke College (37)
 
August 9, 2003--St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church (38)


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1. Hellert, Susan. "Dubuque Pitched In On A Couple of 1871 Disasters," Telegraph Herald, Sept. 21, 2004, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yp1dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zlwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6651,4577052&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en
1. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com


2. Ibid.
2. Ibid.


3. Ibid.
3. Hellert, Susan. "Dubuque Pitched In On A Couple of 1871 Disasters," Telegraph Herald, Sept. 21, 2004, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yp1dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zlwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6651,4577052&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en


4. Ibid.
4. Ibid.


5. Ibid.
5. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com


6. Ibid.
6. Ibid.


7. McCormick, John. "How Big Was the 1894 Fire? It Was So Big That..." Telegraph Herald, Nov. 14, 1979, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nOhFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Uv4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6738,2018011&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en
7. Hellert, Susan.
 
8. Ibid.
 
9. Ibid.
 
10. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com
 
11. Ibid.
 
12. Hellert, Susan
 
13. McCormick, John. "How Big Was the 1894 Fire? It Was So Big That..." Telegraph Herald, Nov. 14, 1979, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nOhFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Uv4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6738,2018011&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en
 
14. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com


8. "Swept by Flames," Dubuque Daily Telegraph, May 30, 1901, p. 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xTdBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y6gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4973,6730013&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en
15. Ibid.


9. Hellert, Susan.
16. Ibid.


10. Ibid.
17. "Swept by Flames," Dubuque Daily Telegraph, May 30, 1901, p. 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xTdBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y6gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4973,6730013&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en


11. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted," Feb. 13, 1963, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZI9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5bwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,4537659&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en
18. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com


12. Ibid.
19. Hellert, Susan.


13. "Dubuque Landmark Destroyed by Fire," Telegraph Herald, January 10, 1943, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5mBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,6624831&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en
20. Ibid.


14. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires," Telegraph Herald, January 22, 2008, p. 1. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DQ&p_theme=dq&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11E5AF695BB37228&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
21. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com


15. "Disappeared in Smoke," Dubuque Daily Herald, July 17, 1886, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p1BRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=89MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1950,3645954&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en
22. Ibid.


16. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires."
23. Ibid.


17. "Disastrous Blaze at Dubuque, Iowa." Chicago Tribune, Feb. 4, 1891, p. 5. Online: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/doc/174491601.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb%204,%201891&author=&pub=Chicago%20Tribune&edition=&startpage=&desc=DISASTROUS%20BLAZE%20AT%20DUBUQUE,%20IA.
24. Ibid.


18. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted."
25. Ibid.


19. "Fire Burns a Whole in Dubuque History," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1984, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JTtFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pLsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4558,2022446&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en
26. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted," Feb. 13, 1963, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZI9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5bwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,4537659&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en


20. "Fires Set at Dubuque Catholic Church," Cedar Rapids Gazette, Aug. 12, 2003. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CR&z=CRGB&p_theme=cr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCE4C47B7D1CE28&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
27. Ibid.
 
28. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires," Telegraph Herald, January 22, 2008, p. 1. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DQ&p_theme=dq&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11E5AF695BB37228&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
 
29. "Disappeared in Smoke," Dubuque Daily Herald, July 17, 1886, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p1BRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=89MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1950,3645954&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en
 
30. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com
 
31. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires."
 
32. "Disastrous Blaze at Dubuque, Iowa." Chicago Tribune, Feb. 4, 1891, p. 5. Online: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/doc/174491601.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb%204,%201891&author=&pub=Chicago%20Tribune&edition=&startpage=&desc=DISASTROUS%20BLAZE%20AT%20DUBUQUE,%20IA.
 
33. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com
 
34. Ibid.
 
35. "Dubuque Landmark Destroyed by Fire," Telegraph Herald, January 10, 1943, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5mBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,6624831&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en
 
36. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted."
 
37. "Fire Burns a Whole in Dubuque History," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1984, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JTtFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pLsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4558,2022446&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en
 
38. "Fires Set at Dubuque Catholic Church," Cedar Rapids Gazette, Aug. 12, 2003. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CR&z=CRGB&p_theme=cr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCE4C47B7D1CE28&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM


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See: [[MILL FIRES]]




[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: Events]]

Revision as of 04:08, 16 November 2013

FIRES. Dubuque has been the scene of many disastrous fires. It has been claimed that belvederes, glass observatories on the roof of homes built in ITALIAN VILLA ARCHITECTURE, were used to observe the city for fires to allow the rest of the community to prepare.

Julien Hotel 1913 fire. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

Among the fires in Dubuque was the destruction of the Hotel Julien in 1913. The HOTEL CANFIELD was destroyed in 1946.




Lumber Companies

May 20, 1866— Booth & Shine’s sawmill (1)

November 17, 1868—Dickinson’s Planing Mill and Hamlin & Wagner’s Cabinet Factory (2)

April 29, 1870--Moore's Mill (3)

August 18, 1870--Weston, Burch and Company (4)

August 23, 1870—Key City Planing Mills and Clark & Scott’s Planing Mill (5)

January 11, 1871—-Dickinson’s Planing Mill and Dubuque Cabinet Makers Association, three-story frame factory on the other side of the street. Adjoining the factories and lumberyards were four or five frame tenement houses, these were all burned. (6)

October 29, 1872--Moore's Mill (7)

November 18, 1875--Iowa Lumber Company and Saw Mill (8)

July 22, 1876--Dubuque Lumber Company (9)

June 18, 1878—shingle mill of L. P. Hough & Co. (10)

August 8, 1878— Lembeck’s Planing Mill (11)

March 28, 1880--C. W. Robinson Lumber Yards (12)

June 9, 1894--Lesure Lumber Company (the largest fire in Dubuque history) (13)

April 8, 1895-—Moore's mill yards (14)

April 4, 1899-—Standard Lumber Company and the Farley & Loetscher Company. (15)

December 30, 1899—Moore’s Mill burned to the ground (16)

May 30, 1901--Dubuque Woodenware and Lumber Company (17)

January 9, 1910-—The Meuser Lumber Company’s old planing mill, a building used principally as a store house for a number of years, was destroyed by fire (18)

May 26, 1911--Standard Lumber Company, Key City Furniture Company; Carr, Ryder and Adams (19)

May 27, 1911--Standard Lumber Company; (20)

July 30, 1911—-Kretschmer Manufacturing Company, the Spahn-Rose Lumber Company, the Wieneke-Hoer Pickling Company, and the barns and hardwood lumber shed of the Farley & Loetscher Company. (21)

April 26, 1915—Five blocks of lumberyards owned by the Carr, Ryder & Adams Company (22)

April 5, 1923-—Fire Thursday night threatened the destruction of the entire Carr, Ryder & Adams Company plant. (23)

April 25, 1924— A fire originating from a bolt of lightning struck the Peter J. Seippel Lumber Company buildings at Locust and Dodge. (24)

December 23, 1938—-Farley & Loetscher Company, sash & door plant experienced an explosion and fire that caused some $100,000 damage. (25)

January 1963--Bly Lumber Company (26)

Nov. 6, 1979--Dubuque Chips Company (27)


Others

January 1858--St. Cloud Hotel (28)

September 1867--Cooper Wagon Works (29)

August 8, 1884— The Key City Furniture Company’s lumberyard and warehouse burned to the ground including the office, stable and furniture. (30)

July 16, 1886--Dubuque Oat Meal Mill (31)

February 4, 1891--Bishop's Block (32)

July 10, 1891—-The planing mill of the Diamond Jo Company (33)

August 18, 1891--Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company’s factory damaged to the extent of $30,000. (34)

January 8, 1943--Rhomberg/Morris Flour Mill on Sageville Road (35)

January 1963--Dubuque Twine Company warehouse (36)

May 17, 1984--Clarke College (37)

August 9, 2003--St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church (38)

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Source:

1. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

2. Ibid.

3. Hellert, Susan. "Dubuque Pitched In On A Couple of 1871 Disasters," Telegraph Herald, Sept. 21, 2004, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yp1dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zlwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6651,4577052&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en

4. Ibid.

5. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

6. Ibid.

7. Hellert, Susan.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

11. Ibid.

12. Hellert, Susan

13. McCormick, John. "How Big Was the 1894 Fire? It Was So Big That..." Telegraph Herald, Nov. 14, 1979, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nOhFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Uv4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6738,2018011&dq=standard+lumber+company+dubuque&hl=en

14. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. "Swept by Flames," Dubuque Daily Telegraph, May 30, 1901, p. 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xTdBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y6gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4973,6730013&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en

18. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

19. Hellert, Susan.

20. Ibid.

21. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted," Feb. 13, 1963, p. 10. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZI9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5bwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,4537659&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en

27. Ibid.

28. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires," Telegraph Herald, January 22, 2008, p. 1. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DQ&p_theme=dq&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11E5AF695BB37228&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

29. "Disappeared in Smoke," Dubuque Daily Herald, July 17, 1886, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p1BRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=89MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1950,3645954&dq=lumber+yard+fires+dubuque&hl=en

30. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

31. "Some Notable Tri-State Fires."

32. "Disastrous Blaze at Dubuque, Iowa." Chicago Tribune, Feb. 4, 1891, p. 5. Online: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/doc/174491601.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb%204,%201891&author=&pub=Chicago%20Tribune&edition=&startpage=&desc=DISASTROUS%20BLAZE%20AT%20DUBUQUE,%20IA.

33. William K. (Bill) Hammel---www.dfdhistory.com

34. Ibid.

35. "Dubuque Landmark Destroyed by Fire," Telegraph Herald, January 10, 1943, p. 5. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5mBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,6624831&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en

36. "Dubuque Fire Toll Boosted."

37. "Fire Burns a Whole in Dubuque History," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1984, p. 4. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JTtFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pLsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4558,2022446&dq=fires+dubuque&hl=en

38. "Fires Set at Dubuque Catholic Church," Cedar Rapids Gazette, Aug. 12, 2003. Online: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CR&z=CRGB&p_theme=cr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCE4C47B7D1CE28&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

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