Tom Dillard: Hot Springs' epic battle with burgeoning blaze left destruction behind

The recent loss of homes in Colorado to a wildfire reminded me of a 1913 fire which practically gutted Hot Springs -- the worst in Arkansas history. The city lost 50 square blocks in a wind-whipped inferno.

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