Duval-Wallace Hardware, 1947




The Duval-Wallace Hardware store occupied the ground floor of the Flood Block Rooming House, located at 119-121 E. Park Avenue in Anaconda.  The picture above is from about 1947-48.  On October 30, 1954, an arsonist set fire to this building and of about 40 who lived there, 2 men were injured, and 9 men were killed.

Injured:

Ed Farrell, about 48 
Vernon Goody, 46

Deceased:

Leo Dougherty, 46 
Leland Bowman, 50 
Joseph Frankovich, 42 
Arthur H. Saul, about 35 
Maurice Alberts, about 55 
Murray A. Cole, 28 
Daniel J. Kennedy, 81 
Clarkson M. Chantry, 46 
Cornelius E. O'Connor, 52
   

 

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