Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner

July 4, 1890

Pullman is in ruins. About half past two o'clock yesterday word came to Colfax, "Pullman is burning." Subsequent reports confirmed the first rumor.

A Commoner reporter boarded the 4 o'clock train and went to the scene of the conflagration. A sight of desolation greets the eye of the beholder of Pullman today.

At 1:30 yesterday a fire broke out in the Lyle Brothers livery stable on Grand street. In an hour and a half the business portion of the city was extinct. A breeze was blowing from the northwest, which fanned the flames into fury in the space of a v...