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A catastrophic fire destroyed twenty buildings, leaving the local economy in ruins with losses exceeding $100,000.
“Flames wiped out the business section of Yelm in two fires recently, destroying 20 buildings.”
When a fire destroyed the home of Stephen Hogden and his boarder B.W. Ward on February 15, 1877, most escaped—but nine-year-old Nellie Ward was lost to the inferno.
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