Starting when a glue pot in Victor Clairmont's cabinet-making shop boiled over, 32 blocks of what city was devastated by a fire starting on June 6, 1889?
Great Seattle Fire the combustible loading. At approximately 2:30 pm on June 6, 1889, an accidentally overturned glue pot in a carpentry shop started the most destructive fire in the history of Seattle. The next day, the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", operating out of temporary facilities in the wake of the fire, reported incorrectly that it began "Jim McGough's paint shop, under Smith's boot and shoe store, at the corner of Front and Madison streets, in what was known as the Denny block"; a correction two weeks later said that it "actually started in the Clairmont and Company cabinet shop, below McGough's shop in the
Starting blocks the same time. Some races for hearing-impaired athletes have also used starting light systems, similar to motorsport's Christmas Tree. Starting blocks Starting blocks are a device used in the sport of track and field by sprint athletes to hold their feet at the start of a race so they do not slip as they push out at the sound of the gun. For most levels of competition, including the whole of high level international competition, starting blocks are mandatory equipment for the start of sprint races. The invention of starting blocks is credited to Australian Charlie Booth and his father