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The Arkansas Advocate
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
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A massive fire destroyed nearly all of Fayetteville, leaving only one block of buildings intact over a mile-long, half-mile-wide area. No lives lost in the blaze, but several died afterward from anxiety and fatigue. The town lacks medicine and provisions have doubled in price, prompting calls for charitable aid to help the destitute residents.
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It is peculiarly fortunate that no lives were lost in the general conflagration. Since the fire several people have died, probably from excessive anxiety and fatigue. The town affords no medicine for the sick, and provisions are said to be 100 per cent. advance.
The case of our distressed fellow-citizens in Fayetteville, calls for the humane and charitable disposition of all. Hundreds of those who were in comfortable circumstances before the fire, found themselves, by the act of Providence, reduced immediately to absolute penury and want, without the means of providing for themselves and families food and raiment: they had nowhere to lay their heads. The distress is general throughout the whole community; they are all sufferers, without the means of administering to each other's relief.
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Primary Location
Fayetteville
Event Date
Before May 31
Outcome
no lives lost in the fire; several people died afterward from excessive anxiety and fatigue; nearly all buildings destroyed over a mile in length and half a mile in width, with only one block standing; no medicine available; provisions advanced 100 per cent.
Event Details
A gentleman in Fayetteville wrote on May 31 describing a general conflagration that left only one block of buildings standing; for a mile in length and half a mile in width, no houses remain; the fire reduced hundreds from comfortable circumstances to penury and want, with no means for food, raiment, or shelter; distress is general throughout the community.