The '' Staats-Zeitung '' was particularly hard hit during the October 1871 Great Chicago Fire . Not only was the building housing the publication , including its machinery and type , lost to the flames , but so too were back files of the paper and the publication 's records of accounts . Moreover , virtually the entire staff of the paper from editors to press operators found themselves burned out of their homes
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
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