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The St. Louis Fire of 1849 was a devastating fire that occurred on May 17, 1849 and destroyed a significant part of St. Louis, Missouri and many of the steamboats using the Mississippi River and Missouri River.
In 1849, the booming frontier city of St. Louis faced a severe cholera outbreak, among other calamities. Many cities, American and European, were strongly affected by the disease during this time, though historians have pointed to St. Louis as one of the worst-hit by population, with as many as sixty-eight people per thousand dying of the disease.
23 lis 2018 · In 1849, the city of St. Louis was little more than a frontier town. The city was undergoing rapid growth and creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure. The cholera epidemic and the great Fire of 1849 were two events that had immediate and long-lasting effects on the rapidly growing city.
25 kwi 2023 · On the windy morning of May 17, 1849, the steamboat White Cloud docked at St. Louis’ crowded port. Cholera was ravaging the city, and the ship needed to be fumigated to prevent the disease’s further spread.
27 lut 2018 · After experiencing a cholera outbreak and the Great Fire, 1849 was a difficult year for St. Louis. In addition, the city struggled to keep up with population growth. The U.S. Census shows the population of St. Louis nearly tripled between 1840 and 1850 from 35,979 to 104,978 residents.
In 1849, St. Louis was a city of 63,000 and quickly becoming the gateway to the west. 1849 was also the year of two great tragedies in St. Louis, a devastating outbreak of cholera that killed nearly 10% of the population and the so called Great Fire.
3 cze 2018 · The city was little more than a frontier town at the time, and the strain of a rapidly growing population and poor infrastructure set the stage for two deadly outbreaks: a massive cholera epidemic and the Great Fire of 1849.
