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William Barnes thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter of sympathy. Both of his sons, Thurlow Weed Barnes and Landon Barnes, are recovering.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-30
Secretary of War Taft sends President Roosevelt an account of the San Francisco earthquake and General Frederick Funston’s handling of the crisis. Taft states that he does not know of any objections to publishing the account, which was written by George M. Dunn, the Judge-Advocate of the Department of California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-06
William Emlen Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt that he agrees it would be unwise for the President to speak out on the strike matter and the “other questions at the present time.” The San Francisco disaster has pushed everything else out of mind for the past few days. Emlen Roosevelt was also in Oyster Bay and went over the land. He hopes Ted is all right, but has been unable to determine if he needed a second surgery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23
Anna Roosevelt Cowles received word that the house on N Street had a fire and asks that Edith Roosevelt find out the cause of the damage and telegraph her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-08
A business card featuring the contact information for insurance broker Joseph F. Burns.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-30
Maria Adelaide Coombs died recently, with her death being attributed to a series of shocking events, including the recent death of her sister, Ellen Elizabeth Pierce. In addition to Pierce’s death, Coombs’s house was recently destroyed by fire, as well as her husband’s lumber company. Her husband, James N. Coombs, is now reported to be in feeble health as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-20
The weather has been fair recently but previous “sharp weather” killed many cattle and “everybody is blue as a whetstone.” At least the losses should stop the big herds from Texas. Medora, Dakota Territory, is “very dead.” A. T. Packard lost everything in a fire and moved back east. The saloon also burnt down and Joseph A. Ferris’s store had a close call. Howard Eaton is glad that William Wingate Sewall is well and he wishes he could join Sewall for some “hunting, fishing, eating apples and drinking cider.”
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1887-02-26
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon asks Charles Macomb Flandrau to write more frequently. She reflects on “an eventful winter, with fires and fevers and everything.” Cutcheon describes a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, bicycling, and the latest novels she has read.
1896-05-01
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon describes a recent house fire which was caused by a defective chimney.
1896-01
An angel labeled “National Credit” with wings labeled “Sound Financial Policy” and “Repeal of Sherman Silver Law” rises above the flames of the wreck of the “U.S. Treasury.” Among the wreckage lie William McKinley bowled over by the “McKinley Bill,” John Sherman being crushed under the weight of large silver coins, Green B. Raum sitting in an empty safe labeled “U.S. Treasury,” with Benjamin Harrison and Charles Foster hanging onto the safe, and William A. Peffer among the lumber on the left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-09-27
Pope Pius X and Cardinal Merry del Val attempt to put out a fire labeled “Revolt Against the Vatican throughout Southern Europe” with bellows labeled “Intolerance” and “Infallibility.” Rain clouds labeled “The Diplomacy of Leo” approach from the right, beneath the spirit of Pope Leo XIII. Caption: They can’t put out a fire with things that won’t put a fire out.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-09-21
Theodore Roosevelt, as the biblical Lot, flees Sodom and Gomorrah which are engulfed in flames labeled “Partisan Politics.” Caption: Lot Roosevelt and the political Sodom and Gomorrah.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-07-13
The Republican elephant lowers President Taft from a window in a burning building to Theodore Roosevelt as a fireman on a ladder. Billowing clouds of smoke labeled “Consumers Revolt” engulf the building.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-05-04
At center, a capitalist sits on money bags labeled “Insurance Money” and leans against several papers labeled “New Policy.” He is gambling with the Grim Reaper, while all around them disasters are happening. A panic-stricken crowd flees a burning theater, a hotel and a tenement building are on fire, a side-wheeler steam ship has exploded, an ocean liner sinks, and a railroad train has crashed. At each of these disasters is a notice that states “Heavily Insured.” Caption: Too Enterprising American Capitalist – Keep up the game! I can lose nothing – I’m heavily insured.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-01-24
Print shows an angel labeled “New Party” with wings labeled “Tariff-Reform” and “Anti-Monopoly” leading two small orphan children labeled “Political Honesty” and “Political Wisdom” to safety, away from the fires, ignited by lightning labeled “Public Condemnation,” that are consuming “Republican Sodom” and “Democratic Gomorrah.” Caption: But peradventure the New Party will save these two little orphans from the burning and bring them up for us.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-05-10
President Cleveland stands directly behind a wall of flames labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Behind him, working on the “Government Farm,” are members of his cabinet: William C. Endicott with a hoe, Lucius Q. C. Lamar kneeling before a newly planted tree, Thomas F. Bayard working on a tree labeled “State Department,” Daniel Manning holding a pot labeled “Treasury,” Augustus H. Garland with a shovel, William C. Whitney adding supports to a tree labeled “Navy Department,” and William F. Vilas with a watering can. In the foreground, locusts driven back by the smoke and overcome by the fumes lie on the ground and are about to be consumed by the flames. The locusts include “Kelly, Dugro, Voorhees, Blackburn, McLean, Dana, Butler, H. O. Thompson, Chenowith, Higgins, [and] Aquila Jones.” Two that seem unaffected are labeled “Hendricks” carrying a banner that states “To the Victors belong the Spoils” and “McLoughlin” [sic].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-02
A raging fire in a building billows dark smoke labeled “Disease.” People are trying to escape by climbing to the edge and jumping into a safety net labeled “Vivisectional Research Life-Net” held by fire fighters. Other fire fighters stream water labeled “Knowledge” on to the flames. A man with a hatchet labeled “Legislation” is about to chop the water hose into pieces, as other citizens attempt to pull the safety net away. Caption: The anti-vivisectionists to the fire-fighting doctors.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-03-22