Humboldt Has $500,000 Fire
Seven business houses were completely destroyed, four others badly damaged by fire and water, a 375-foot fruit shed and five refrigerator freight cars and flat cars loaded with lumber were burned, together with a 50,000-gallon water tank, in Humboldt, Tenn., early in July, 1950.
The fire, which was attributed to a match tossed onto a pile of paper by a group of boys near one of the fruit and vegetable sheds of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, spread over creosoted timber of the long shed, caused an explosion of a barrel of waxing compound, and required more than two hours of strenuous effort before it was controlled by Humboldt firemen, aided by forces from Milan, Trenton, Jackson. Bells and Brownsville.
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