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Information on Past Fires
Click here for a list of fires that have occurred in Cape Girardeau between the years of 1865 and 2007.
Fires in the 1800s
- Steam Saw Mill
- 1-5-1865
- St. Charles Hotel
- 1-1865
- A.R. Taylor & Sons (Harmony)
- 11-2-1869
- Stonewall Riverboat (Neely’s Landing)
- 11-4-1869
- Vogt Beer Distillery (Old Fairgrounds)
- 12-9-1869
- Foundry & 2 homes
- 5-1883
- Print Office (Main St)
- 6-1891
- Hirsch Building, Bierwirth’s, Post Office
- 8-9-1891
- Casper Uhl Building (Main St.)
- 8-1891
- Lorimier Mills
- 3-12-1892
- Creamery (Old Hanny Brewery)
- 8-1894
- Dempsey Corn Warehouse (Themis)
- 11-1894
- Matteson Paint Mill (Happy Holllow)
- 6-26-1899
Fires in the 1900s
- Normal School
- 4-7-1902
- Henry Ossenkop’s Planing Mill
- 11-15-1902
- Cape City Mill Warehouse
- 11-15-1903
- Walter Albert Warehouse
- 1-1-1904
- Riverview Hotel and Palace Saloon
- 9-9-1904
- Lorimier Hotel
- 12-10-1904
- Taylor & Van Frank stables destroyed
- 4-2-1905
- Buckner-Ragsdale (Houck Building)
- 9-9-1905
- Old Fagan Building
- 10-22-1906
- Frisco Car Shop (Loss $75,000)
- 1-26-1907
- Cross Printing Co. (Broadway)
- 2-5-1907
- M.E. Leming building
- 11-16-1907
- Phillips Lumber & Fuel Co.
- 12-5-1907
- Gill Bros. Saloon (Main St.)
- 3-16-1908
- Miler & Kinder / Hoeller & Anderson Bldgs
- 4-4-1908
- Fred Kain Barn & Waters-Pierce Oil Co.
- 4-23-1908
- Buckner Ragsdale (Houck Building)
- 9-9-1908
- Planters Mill
- 3-27-1909
- F.W. Vogt, Farmers Mill & 2nd hand store
- 4-3-1909
- Hobbs Furniture (Water & Themis)
- 5-4-1909
- Apex Saloon (Good Hope)
- 5-7-1909
- Blue Ribbon Coal & Ice Co. Stables
- 2-28-1911
- Jim Miller Livery Stable (Haarig)
- 5-9-1911
- Phillips Lumber & Fuel Co yards
- 12-28-1911
- Hobbs Furniture (Water & Themis)
- 5-23-1912
- Three House (College & Frederick)
- 10-28-1912
- Interurban Railway Boiler Room & Sheds
- 1-4-1913
- St. Louis Oil Co.
- 1-7-1913
- Six homes on North Street
- 8-9-1913
- Hope – Cotner Garage
- 10-4-1913
- Centenary Methodist Church
- 2-21-1914
- Old Metz Saloon (Haarig)
- 4-15-1914
- Cape City Mill (Stein & Lance)
- 6-15-1914
- Fuerth Foundry
- 8-6-1914
- Caldwell – Sherman Store (Main St.)
- 10-8-1914
- Phillips Lumber & Fuel Co.
- 8-8-1915
- Suedekum Hardware & 4 other buildings
- 1-6-1916
Fires in the 2000s
- Apt. Building (225 S. Spanish)
- 3-11-2004
- Cape Restaurant Supply (340 S. Frederick)
- 8-17-2004
- Bella Italia Restaurant (20 N. Spanish)
- 3-19-2005
- 221 S. Spanish/227 S. Spanish
- 4-18-2006
- Semi-Tanker Fire (I-55)
- 3-27-2007
