SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Fires have been in the news lately, and rightly so. With the number of acres burned in these historic fires, the information I found about fires in Sherman County in earlier years hardly seems noteworthy. However, any fire is devastating, as those who have been a victim will acknowledge. Some of the fire stories are shared now.
On January 24, 1888, the Omaha Daily Bee reported on a fire in Loup City that was discovered in the “the livery barn of Miller and Graham on the northeast corner of the square…before anything could be done the building was in ashes and also the office of the Loup City Lumber company. Four horses and all the vehicles, harness, etc., were burned…The origin of the fire is unknown but is supposed to have been an attempt to burn the town, by incendiaries.”
