Wynne, 1909: “This picture is of a passenger depot taken while burning.” Indeed, the depot (seen in our previous feature) went up in smoke, lighting up the night sky and large hotels to the right. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from reaching the hotels.
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Ray Hanley
Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s “Postcard Past” feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.