Conflagration
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.
Related e |
Featured: |
- A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
- The conflagration took sixty firefighters to put it out.
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Conflagration" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.