IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 in east Idaho history.

1900-1925

IDAHO FALLS — A massive fire broke out in Idaho Falls that was being described as the “most serious and destructive fire that has ever occurred in this vicinity,” The Teton Peak-Chronicle reported on Oct. 1, 1903. The article was originally published in the Desert News.

The fire ignited around 6:30 p.m. in the drug store belonging to R.F. Payne, in a building owned by his father on South Front Street. The blaze moved quickly from one building to another due to a strong wind that was blowing from the northwest.

“The water supply was totally insufficient and the fire department — if it is worth the name — was unable to cope with such a blazing mass,

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