Great Fire of 1901

[Jim Eshelman]

The third worst urban fire in U.S. history (after Chicago and San Francisco) was in Jacksonville, FL on May 3, 1901, beginning a few minutes after noon. It still ranks as one of Florida's worst disasters ever. Only 7 people died, but 2,368 buildings were destroyed.

During a period of extended drought, Cleaveland Fibre Factory workers broke for lunch at about noon. A few minutes later, chimney sparks from a nearby building ignited materials at the factory, and the fire (fed by rising wind) was soon beyond the remaining workers' ability to extinguish, and it leapt quickly through the dry wood homes and other buildings. It burned eight hours, levelling 146 city blocks, leaving almost 10,000 people homeless.

I'll use noon as a non-pretentious approximation. The actual time was likely closer to noon than to 12:30 PM. May 3, 1901, Jacksonville, FL. (Mars exactly rose at 12:11 PM.)

In something (in my experience) unprecedented, of four solar ingresses and four lunar ingresses, only one is not dormant. (The one live ingress is a good chart, though.) Overall, it's not an impressive set of charts for such an event.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)
Year: Cansolar (Dormant.) Moon-Neptune sq. (2°40' in mundo) Moon-Pluto sq. (1°35')

Bridge
t. Neptune on Cansolar angles 12/25-5/16
t. Neptune sq. CanQ Moon 3/27-6/22
t. Uranus sq. Cansolar Moon 4/24-6/17
-- These overlap 4/25-5/16
t. Jupiter conj. Capsolar angles 3/20-6/11
Cansolar event window: April 25 to May 16 (overlapping Jupiter entire time)

Quarter: Arisolar (Dormant.)
Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Mars conj. (2°09')
Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
Week: Liblunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mercury op. (3°51')
Week: Canlunar (Dormant.)

Week: Arilunar
Pluto on Asc (1°40')
Uranus on Dsc (3°56')
-- Uranus-Pluto op. (0°30')
Neptune on Asc (6°10')
Moon-Venus conj. (1°12')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Asc conj. t. Saturn (0°59'), s. Mercury (1°02')
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t. Jupiter conj. s. IC (0°13')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. MC conj. t. Jupiter (0°51')
t. Neptune sq. p. Moon (0°16')
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t. Neptune sq. s. MC (1°25')
t. Uranus sq. s. Moon (0°44')


SUMMARY