Houston Hotel Fire - Klamath Falls, OR
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N 42° 14.056 W 121° 46.932
10T E 600485 N 4676504
A memorial to the Houston Hotel Fire.
Waymark Code: WMYWNK
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2018
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" headstone engraving in the Linkville Pioneer Cemetery in Klamath Falls reads:
Dedicated to the unidentified victims
Houston Hotel Fire
Sept. 6, 1920.
At least 14 people died in the pre-dawn fire when the hotel at the corner of Main and Second streets was jammed with Labor Day weekend guests, some overflowing onto hallway cots. Officials identified seven bodies and buried at least another seven in two unmarked plots in the Pioneer Cemetery.
Ninety years later, the Klamath Falls Herald and News reported that determining the number of dead was difficult because many remains were “too damaged to be positively identified as human.” One responding fireman described some remains as “simply charred backbones entwined in blackened metal bed springs.” (
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