Popular Images of two fires that nearly decimated Cripple Creek, Colorado, in April 1896. Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado, first fire [1896] The fire at Cripple Creek, Colo. 1896 Cripple Creek, Colorado after first fire [1896] Cripple Creek, Colorado after first fire [1896] El Paso Livery Stable before the fire 1896 El Paso Livery Stable, the explosion, 1896 1896 El Paso Livery Stable burning, fire 1896 1896 Cripple Creek fire 1896 El Paso Livery stable after the explosion 1896 April 29 Cripple Creek [1896] West half burned 3 days after east half [1896] After the 2nd fire [1896] After the fire [1896] After the fire [1896] Bennett [illegible] and Penrose Blk [1896] Bennett Ave. [beteen 1896 and 1900] Bennett Ave. [1896] Bennett Ave. after 2nd fire [1896] Bennett Ave. after the fire [1896] Bennett Ave. looking west [1896] City Jail, Crippe [sic] Creek fire [1896] Cor. Tutt and Penrose blk. 1896 Cripple Creek [1896] Cripple Creek - after the fire [1896] Cripple Creek after the fire 1896 Cripple Creek fire, early 1890's [1896] Destruction caused by second fire, Cripple Creek [1896] Destruction caused by second fire, Cripple Creek [1896] Destruction from second fire, Cripple Creek [1896] Examining a safe [1896] First National Bank after first fire, Cripple Creek, Colorado [1896] General view after the fire, Bennett and 4th 1896 General view after the fire, Cripple Creek [1896] Palace Hotel [1896] Part of First St. saved from the fire 1896 Part of First Street 1896 Rebuilding over the hot ashes 1896 The only [illegible] Bennett Ave. [1896] West, Cripple Creek after the fire [1896] Cripple Creek, the famous mining town of Colorado, almost obliterated by two disastrous fires The new Cripple Creek, showing the town's rapid recovery from the disastrous fires of April, 1896