The disaster set at building granularity

1908–2026 · GATHERED FROM THE LEGS THAT CARRY EACH

The town's disasters stand scattered across five files; gathered at the granularity of buildings, they make a short, exact set. The church, 1908: the wood church of St. Stanislaus at Terre Coupee burned in 1908 — the parish's first building on its ground, replaced in the brick church whose glass the artists addendum gathers (the Architecture section's demolition ledger carries the fire). The Death Crossing: the railroad crossing disaster carried whole in the transportation leg — the town's worst single day, standing here as the set's anchor and told there at full size, its marker's superlative tested in the claims addendum. The K-Fex fire, 2014: the fire that killed Assistant Chief Middlebrook — on La Porte County ground, as the fire leg prints it, and standing in this set because the fire territory's line-of-duty dead are the town's dead by service if not by soil; the boundary is printed with the name. The Institute, 2024: a demolition, not a fire — the school building's end, carried in the architecture record, standing in the set as the town's most recent loss of a landmark building. The current-year test: no fire or disaster of set size stands for the town in 2026 in the record this section reached — the set closes with the test printed, settler the territory's incident record and the town press.

Sources:

1. Architecture, Transportation and Fire & Public Safety — each entry at its carrier's strength, gathered here; the K-Fex boundary as the fire leg prints it.
2. The current-year test: the searches of this section, November 2026.