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Lightning strikes and starts house fire
The Pittsburg Fire Department was called out on the afternoon of May 5 for a structure fire north of town. Lightening had struck a house and smoke was issuing from the roof.
The Ezekiel Airship
Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (1848 – 1922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel Airship Company and build a craft described in the Biblical book of Ezekiel. The ship had large, fabric-covered wings powered by an engine that turned four sets of paddles. It was built in a nearby machine shop and was briefly airborne at this site late in 1902, a year before the Wright brothers first flew. Enroute to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, the airship was destroyed by a storm. In 1913 a second model crashed, and the Rev. Cannon gave up the project. (1976) --Historical marker #9794
