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Goodspeed was the popular pastor of the Second Baptist Church. When the First Baptist
Church sold its site at LaSalle and Washington to the Chamber of Commerce and built a
new church outside of the downtown in the South Division, members of the Second
Baptist Church disassembled the old building and reconstructed it in the West Division.
Goodspeed published three successively larger fire histories before the year was out.
While his were among the most pious in tone, all the fire accounts include such
heartbreaking scenes as are depicted here, though they also marvel at the relatively
limited loss of life.
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Inside the Burning City 