GREAT FALLS - 1928

On Dec. 9, 1928, flames destroyed the Stanton Trust & Savings Bank building in Great Falls, Montana.

The blaze, which started in an elevator shaft, damaged neighboring structures and sent aloft burning embers that set houses ablaze, according to the Great Falls Tribune. Fire Chief A.J. Trodick rescued a woman from the third floor. 

The five-story bank building, erected in 1890 of stone, brick and wood, "burned like tinder," the newspaper said.