History of Fargo, North Dakota, USA

FARGO, Dak., Dec. 23. - Fire broke out at about 4 o'clock this morning in the block fronting on Northern Pacific avenue between Broadway and Fifth street. Doyle's livery stable, Holden's saloon, Stewart's saloon, Hunter's restaurant and Cole's unoccupied building, were totally consumed. Total loss, $35,000; insurance, $24,000. The upper rooms of the same buildings were occupied as sleeping rooms. Stanford's seed store on the west was saved, but the stock was injured by water. The fire was incendiary in its origin.

FARGO, N. D., April 12. - The Red river rose steadily all day long, and tonight the water is up to the doors of the city waterworks. Island Park is surrounded entirely by a lake of water, 200 yards wide and residents pass back and forth by means of boats. A number of barns and out-buildings have been swept away and some houses are already flooded and residents driven out. To-morrow the river will touch its highest point. Reports from up the river state that the water is subsiding there. It rained heavily all the forenoon, turning to a furious snow-storm in the afternoon and to-night the storm rivals the most severe blizzard of the season.

THE WORST AND MOST DESTRUCTIVE DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE.

OVER A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY MELTS AWAY IN THIN AIR.

FLAMES RAGE ALMOST UNCHECKED FROM 2 O'CLOCK UNTIL 11 LAST NIGHT.

Moorhead, Minn., June 7 - About 3 o'clock this afternoon the alarm of fire was sounded, and it was reported that some ashes thrown from the Little Gem restaurant on Front street started the fire in the rear of HEARSEMAN'S store. The department was promptly on hand, but a strong wind from the southwest fanned the flames until one blaze enveloped the row of wooden houses east of the united block, adjoining the Gem store, and SCHOFIELD'S gun store could not be saved, the fire taking in the contents, including a keg of powder and innumerable cartridges. The wind carried the fire across the street and soon had MAGILL'S great warehouse a heap of ashes. It then jumped over the elevator building and took in the frame structures occupied by DARLING, ANGELL, FRANCIS & SOUTHERLAND, the Piano ...

Far'go, a post-village and railroad centre, capital of Cass co., N.D., on the Red River, 46 miles by rail N. of Wahpeton. It has several churches, 3 newspaper offices, manufactures of ploughs, mowing- and reaping-machines, and other agricultural implements, brooms, &c. The State Agricultural College is situated here. Pop. in 1890, 5664.

Fargo, N. D., June 14. - The Headquarters hotel, the oldest hostelry in the state, was totally destroyed by fire at 6 p. m. The ticket office and waiting rooms of the Northern Pacific were also burned. A lucky change in the direction of the wind undoubtedly saved the city from another great disaster.

Fargo, a banking city and railroad-centre, capital of Cass co., N.Dak., on the Red River, 254 miles W. of Duluth, on the Great Northern and other railroads. It has bridge- and iron-works, packing-industries, and manufactories of agricultural implements, machinery, tiles, carriages, etc. The State Agricultural and Fargo colleges are located here. The city has Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal cathedrals and a federal land-office. Pop. in 1800, 5684 ; in 1900, 9589.