Document Type
Image
Preview
Creation Date
1918
Description
High winds forced a trash fire out of control, burning thirty square blocks, including most of the business district, the afternoon of June 25, 1918. 1,500 homeless people took shelter in the school (left center) and the Independent Mine Building (see photograph titled "Independent Mine, Cle Elum".) Most of the brick buildings in Cle Elum's downtown were built after the fire.Postcard titled: "The Burning of Cle-Elum."
Recommended Citation
Connell, Russell H., "Cle Elum fire, June 25, 1918" (1918). Ellensburg History Photographs. 253.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ellensburg_history/253
Source
Local History Collection Photographs, Ellensburg Public Library
Format
image/jpg
Keywords
Kittitas County (Wash.) -- Cityscapes, Historical districts -- Washington (State) -- Kittitas County, Cityscapes -- Washington (State) -- Kittitas County, Cle Elum (Wash.) -- Cityscapes, Fires -- Washington (State) -- Cle Elum, School buildings -- Washington (State) -- Cle Elum