Martin's World's Fair album-atlas and family souvenir : containing artistic half-tone illustrations of the World's Fair palaces, and many of Chicago's mammoth buildings .. (1893)
Martin, J. F, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) · Chicago : National Book & Picture Co. · leaf 228
and seemingly impregnable exterior of the Chamber A strong southwest wind blowing at the time carried hot cinders and of Commerce. Such rapidity seemed almost impossible, but the huge burning fragments to distant buildings, and one block after another was tongues of flame actually stretched… … the spectators, “ it will show itself to as Van Buren Street But now a be about the only building on the South side to-morrow.” And yet in new danger asserted itself; there were upwards of twenty blocks burning another five minutes, a great burning timber, wrenched from a La Salle and the wind…
