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Link: News reports of local disasters in the US and Canada
« on: Wednesday 22 May 13 20:37 BST (UK) »
If you're looking for news of local disasters - fires, floods, storms, etc. - here's a website.  It includes even very small disasters as I discovered when I came upon a non-fatal barn fire in Endeavor, Wisconsin in 1909 which, unfortunately or fortunately, did not involve any of my ancestors.

http://www3.gendisasters.com
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis