Title
Isleton Fire of 1926
Subject
Isleton, Japantown, Chinatown, 1926, Fire
Description
On Memorial Day 1926 a fire broke out in Isleton's Chinatown in a building next to the Chinese Language School on Main Street when a Chinese woman was using a kerosene stove to warm up some milk. The milk had boiled over and in trying to save it the woman's hand towel caught on fire that quickly spread to the rest of her house. Due to the fire occurring on Memorial Day the local fire crew were absent as they were attending a holiday picnic.
Source
Isleton Brannan-Andrus Historical Museum
Date
1926
Rights
Isleton Brannan-Andrus Historical Museum